“Actual Housewives of Orange County” star Tamra Choose is breaking her silence on the arrest of Dr. Wendy Osefo from Bravo’s “Actual Housewives of Potomac.” The latter, who first joined the DC iteration of the favored franchise, has been accused, alongside together with her husband, Eddie Osefo, by Maryland legislation enforcement officers of staging a faux housebreaking to max out their insurance coverage insurance policies to obtain hefty payouts. Whereas they’ve but to reply to the claims publicly, Choose revealed on her podcast that somebody near Wendy and Eddie allegedly reached out to her by way of social media, sharing much more damning allegations in regards to the well-known couple.

Throughout her “Two Ts In A Pod” podcast, Choose, a veteran solid member of “RHOC,” informed her co-host that she allegedly obtained a direct message (DM) from considered one of Wendy’s neighbors who shared their issues in regards to the couple’s reported housebreaking from April 2024.

“Her neighbor slid into my DM. [She said] mainly, all of them received notices on their entrance door or of their mailbox that there had been a housebreaking at Wendy and Eddie’s home. And immediately, the entire total neighborhood was pondering, ‘That is insurance coverage fraud,'” Choose stated on the present. “She goes, ‘We have been all saying, ‘No manner.'” I don’t know if the world the place they’re at is … recognized for burglaries, however she is on TV, in order that’s a distinct degree. However all of them thought one thing was type of shady about it.”

Choose’s statements got here days after information broke that Wendy and Eddie have been arrested and booked on a number of felony fraud prices in Maryland. In line with a earlier report from The Blast, Wendy and Eddie, a former faculty professor and lawyer, respectively, are stated to have filed a police report in April of final 12 months, claiming a whole bunch of 1000’s of luxurious items have been stolen from their bed room throughout a theft whereas they have been away on trip.

The police report notes that legislation enforcement officers have been instantly suspicious of Wendy and Eddie’s declare, revealing they did not discover any signal of pressured entry.

“To go in or out of that window, one has to step on the bathroom. The bathroom lid was down and had no particles on it,” the police report learn. “When Sheriff’s workplace personnel stepped onto the roof and again into the house, they tracked roof ‘grit’ again inside. The Osefos had an ADT system and a hoop digital camera;” nonetheless, there was “no movement detected contained in the residence” when the alleged housebreaking occurred.

Investigators additionally alleged Wendy and Eddie filed quite a few insurance coverage claims with totally different corporations, hoping to obtain large payouts for objects that they had already “returned for a full refund.”

Shortly after her arrest, Bravo introduced its resolution to tug Wendy’s episode of the upcoming “Actual Housewives” spin-off present, “Spouse Swap.”

And the unhealthy information would not finish there. In line with TMZ, Wendy additionally resigned from her educating place at Wesleyan College, the place she held the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, and taught a course on race in actuality tv.

“Dr. Osefo made the voluntary resolution to step down from her position. This resolution was made independently and communicated on to the college earlier than any exterior studies surfaced,” an announcement from her rep learn.

Eddie, alternatively, may additionally face penalties as a lawyer in Washington, DC, if he’s convicted or pleads responsible to any of the 18 offenses he was charged with.

“Most States, together with D.C., do institute self-discipline for attorneys convicted of fraud or different crimes of ethical turpitude. Sometimes, they wait till decision of [the] prison case, however in excessive circumstances they might ask prison court docket to make not training legislation a situation of bond,” Sam Bassett, a Texas prison protection lawyer, stated.