(VIDEO) Wife Swap couple Ralph and Karen Guastaferro plead guilty

This week, Ralph and Karen Guastaferro pled guilty to money laundering charges in a New York court; the couple drew national attention when they appeared on Wipe Swap in 2008.

Ralph, 62 and Karen Guastaferro, 55 were charged with laundering $1.2 million from a Canadian telemarketing scheme business. Ralph faces up to 5 years in prison, and Karen faces up to 16 months. A date for sentencing has not been set.

On Wife Swap, they were portrayed as a couple who pampered their daughter, Alicia. They liked to give her a present per day, and one included a new Chevy Tahoe even Alicia she was old enough to drive.

Karen was swapped with another wife from a religious home in Indiana. The nation was fascinated with the lavish lifestyle of the Guastaferro’s and that Alicia Guastaferro was a preschool beauty queen. See Wife Swap video below.

The Wife Swap show exchanges wives from completely different backgrounds in an attempt to see if the families learn anything or create controversy. Recently, a coupon clipping Utah wife was swapped with a partying Key West, Florida wife.

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