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Teresa Giudice seemed to have tried the old “Don’t you know who I am?” trick during a traffic stop … and while it’s unclear if it worked, she lucked out with a friendly cop.
The ‘RHONJ’ star got pulled over back in April out in Riverdale, NJ … this after a police officer apparently saw her swerving in and out of lanes during a night drive. The body cam footage — which seems to have just been released — shows his interaction with her.
Check it out … the cop asks for Teresa’s driver’s license, and she forks it over — but also tries sneaking some extra identifying information in the form of “family business cards.”
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The officer laughs it off, saying those won’t be necessary … and then heads back to his car to dive into her background. He’s perusing her record for a bit, and then eventually heads back to talk to Teresa — at which point he lets her off the hook with a simple warning.
Teresa sounds grateful … telling the officer that she tends to drive a little crooked, and she even makes a random mention of her father dying. The whole chat is super chummy.
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Again, we’re not sure if the cop here realized who he was dealing with — a celeb, especially around those parts in NJ — but in any case … he cut TG a break. She should count herself lucky … especially since she famously ran into serious legal trouble once upon a time.
Teresa’s attorney, James Leonard, tells TMZ … “There is no family business card. That is ridiculous. No such card exists or has ever existed. She was referring to a New Jersey State PBA card that was given to her by an acquaintance who is a law enforcement officer and issued her the card.”
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Leonard goes on … “the bigger issue here is why is a video of a woman being pulled over, who did absolutely nothing wrong, being released to the public more than five months after the actual motor vehicle stop happened.”
