Episode Report Card Potes: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Friendly Fire
By Potes | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.17.2012
Next, we go to Chris and Albie's apartment in Hoboken. Greg is there, as is Lauren. It's raining, and everyone has ordered pizza. Except Lauren got salad too! Dude, but it has a metric ton of meat on it. This is not so much a problem for Lauren, who makes a perfunctory attempt not to eat the cheese in the salad before eating the cheese in the salad. Chris notes that it must be hard for Lauren to try to lose weight when everyone around her eats so damn much. He suggests that she go to Italian rehab, which I guess involves detoxing from pepperoni for 70 days. Poor Lauren.
And then we are back with Jacqueline and Chris, who are reading an issue of In Touch or some similarly trashy mag that has an article all about Teresa's combined money and legal troubles. It turns out that bankruptcy trustees allege that Teresa knowingly withheld assets, including a $250,000 advance for her cookbook. So, according to the article, both Teresa and Joe could theoretically go to jail. Jacqueline pretends not to see this as a positive development.
We then head to the layer's office with Teresa and Juicy. Their lawyer, James, tells them that they signed the bankruptcy petition jointly, but the resolution of each person will be a separate matter. It turns out that Juicy for some reason or other will not need a trial, and they're moving forward to concluding his bankruptcy issue. Does this mean he WON'T go to jail? Or is that a separate thing? I'm on the side of whatever could send him to the clink for the indefinite future. As for Teresa, they've made an offer to the U.S. Trustee's Office and the Chapter 7 Trustee, which has not been accepted at this point. If they can settle her issues, the process will be resolved much more quickly than if she has to go to trial, obviously. Teresa says that God puts you through tests in life. Don't I know it.
Teresa adds that the whole situation has shown her who her true friends are, and Jacqueline is a true friend. But! Meanwhile, Jacqueline is upset because Teresa never talks to her about what's really going on, and she doesn't know if Teresa is really hurting or merely profiting from other people's pity by putting salacious stories in the tabloids and getting paid for it. Basically, she is getting tired of Teresa's bullshit. But Chris and Jacqueline feel like they've always been there for the Giudices, and even thought about buying all of the crap they had to auction off during the bankruptcy and giving it back to them. That is nice in the way that enablers are nice, which is to say not really nice at all. Anyway, Jacqueline is upset, and Chris tells her that eventually the truth comes out.