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Mike Sorrentino To Marry Fiancee Weeks After Sentencing

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Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is racing the calendar — trying to make it down the aisle before he has to report to federal prison.

The “Jersey Shore” star is locking down wedding plans with fiancée Lauren Pesce even as a federal sentencing date looms on the calendar. According to reports surfaced by Radar Online, Sorrentino is due in a federal courtroom in Newark, New Jersey, on October 2, 2018, to be sentenced on a tax evasion charge — and he’s planning to marry Pesce just weeks later, in early November. The timeline isn’t accidental: federal defendants typically get a surrender period before reporting to prison, meaning Sorrentino and Pesce believe they can get married as free people even if a sentence is handed down.

• Sorrentino is scheduled for sentencing October 2, 2018, in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.
• He pleaded guilty in January 2018 to one count of tax evasion, admitting he concealed $123,000 in cash income earned in 2011; his brother Marc pleaded guilty to one count of aiding in the preparation of a false tax return.
• Sorrentino and Pesce got engaged in April 2018, a moment filmed for MTV’s “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation,” and are planning to marry in early November — after sentencing but before any prison surrender.

The Case Against Sorrentino

Sorrentino’s legal troubles date back to a September 2014 indictment that named him alongside his brother, Marc Sorrentino, accusing the pair of filing fraudulent tax returns and failing to pay taxes on roughly $8.9 million in earnings between 2010 and 2012. Federal prosecutors weren’t done there — in April 2017, they piled on additional charges, including tax evasion and structuring cash deposits specifically to dodge currency-transaction reporting thresholds, the kind of paper trail banks are required to flag.

$8.9 million in earnings between 2010 and 2012 — the amount prosecutors say Mike and Marc Sorrentino failed to properly report to the IRS.

The case finally reached a resolution in January 2018, when Sorrentino pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, admitting he had concealed $123,000 in cash income he earned in 2011. Marc pleaded guilty separately to one count of aiding in the preparation of a false tax return. That guilty plea set the stage for the October 2 sentencing hearing in Newark — the date now hanging over the wedding planning.

Planning A Wedding Around A Sentencing Hearing

Sorrentino proposed to Pesce, his college sweetheart, in April 2018, and the moment made it onto MTV’s “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation,” the revival that’s kept the original cast in the spotlight years after the show’s Seaside Heights heyday. The engagement came while Sorrentino’s federal case was still working through the courts, which meant the couple has effectively been planning a wedding under the shadow of a pending sentence the entire time.

Rather than delay, Sorrentino and Pesce are pushing ahead with an early-November ceremony — just weeks after the October 2 hearing. The logic tracks with how federal sentencing works: defendants are typically given a window before they have to self-report to a designated facility, rather than being taken into custody the moment a judge reads out a sentence. That gap is what the couple is counting on to get married outside of a prison visiting room.

Staying The Course

Ahead of the hearing, Sorrentino has publicly maintained his sobriety and said he’s ready to settle his legal debts, framing the wedding as something he wants locked in before he potentially serves any time. It’s a familiar script for reality-television figures who’ve had brushes with the law — plenty of cases have shown just how unpredictable federal sentencing outcomes can be, as detailed in The Biggest Celebrity Prison Sentences That Were Cut Short. For now, Sorrentino’s focus is on getting to the altar with Pesce before anything else on his calendar takes precedence.

Whatever the judge in Newark decides on October 2, Sorrentino and Pesce are still planning to say their vows in early November — meaning the next real update on this story is the sentence itself, not the wedding.