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Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie Osefo, attended a court hearing on Friday in Carroll County, Maryland, where their attorneys attempted to block prosecutors’ requests to subpoena eight years of their personal and business financial documents.
As the prosecution accused the Real Housewives of Potomac couple, both 41, of being in financial turmoil and cited public interest in their fraud case, their lawyers claimed the documents were “private and confidential” and claimed the prosecution exposed previous records in an effort to “embarrass” Wendy and Eddie, and to “develop a motive” against them.
“[They] have very little money,” a prosecutor told a circuit court judge, via a December 19 report from The Baltimore Banner.
According to prosecutor Melissa Hockensmith, the state needs access to Wendy and Eddie’s records, although many have already been released.
“The public has an interest in these crimes and to make sure justice is done in this case,” she said.
As RHOP fans will recall, Wendy and Eddie were charged with seven counts of insurance fraud, eight counts of conspiracy insurance fraud, and one count of making a false statement to a police officer as they were indicted in October for allegedly staging a fake robbery in April 2024, and proceeding to make $450,000 in insurance claims.
As reports suggested, the prosecution claimed the couple reported items stolen that had been taken back to stores for refunds before their alleged burglary.
Then, in November, prosecutors alleged that Wendy and Eddie had been in possession of “approximately 40 credit and/or debit cards, some of which are believed to be in company names,” and had used fake names, including “Pam Oliver” and “Eddie Hennessy,” to “[deliberately] attempt to mask their identity.”
Weeks later, the prosecution claims there were actually 67 cards in four different luxury wallets — some of which were located in a Chanel wallet that had been reported as stolen.
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Meanwhile, the defense claimed many of the cards were expired or from joint accounts, and noted that Wendy and Eddie had only used aliases when ordering packages. They also stated that there was no evidence of the use of fake names in banking records, alleging that the state was making a “nonsensical argument” over the “innocent and innocuous” aliases.
As for Wendy and Eddie’s supposedly dire financial state, their attorneys argued that there was “no evidence that the Osefos are in financial distress.”
Eddie’s lawyer, Joseph Murtha, also said that prosecutors were seeking information that had “no bearing on the outcome of the case” and refuted a prosecutor who said she’d never spend such high amounts on bags.
As the hearing concluded, Judge Richard R. Titus declined to rule on the matter in court, stating that he was “inclined” to agree with the state and would rule later in the day on Friday.
The Real Housewives of Potomac season 10 airs Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo.