Joe Giudice, the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star from Montville, will have to remain in a central Pennsylvania jail while he awaits a decision on whether he will be deported to Italy, after a judge denied his request to be released on bond.

The decision, handed down Friday, comes more than a week after Giudice's immigration attorney, Jerard Gonzalez, argued in a Pennsylvania courtroom that his client was entitled to a bond hearing under a 2018 court decision that required such proceedings after six months of immigration detention. Gonzalez also said Giudice, who has been held in immigration custody since March, should be released because he poses no threat.

The decision was "very disappointing,'' Gonzalez said Monday. John Martin, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review, said the agency doesn't comment on such rulings.

Giudice was born in Italy and moved to the United States with his parents when he was 1 year old. He has lived in the United States as a permanent legal resident or green card holder but never became a citizen.

The government can deport anyone who is not a U.S. citizen if the person commits a crime.

Giudice has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since he completed a 41-month prison term for bankruptcy and mortgage fraud.

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An immigration court ruled in October that Giudice should be deported back to Italy upon the completion of his federal sentence. In April, the federal Board of Immigration Appeals denied his challenge of the deportation order, which led his lawyers to file for a stay with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. They are still awaiting a decision on a separate appeal.

"Joe is extremely disappointed,'' James Leonard Jr., the Giudices' family lawyer, said in a statement to People magazine on its website. "He spent the last six months in a cage not able to hug or kiss his wife or daughters when they came to visit him."

Giudice is being held at the ICE Clinton County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, about two hours north of Harrisburg.

In 2013, Giudice and his wife, Teresa, were charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications, and bankruptcy fraud. Prosecutors at the time alleged that the Giudices overstated their income when applying for loans, then concealed the wealth they earned from the hit television show in a bankruptcy filing. The indictment said they obtained millions in home-related loans between 2001 and 2008.

The couple pleaded guilty in federal court in March 2014 to defrauding lenders of more than $5 million by submitting phony documents to get construction and bank loans, and to withholding assets and lying to bankruptcy officials. Joe Giudice also admitted that he failed to file a 2004 tax return.