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Apollo Nida is on his way to becoming a free man after five years behind bars.
The former husband ofReal Housewives of Atlantaalumna Phaedra Parks has been released from prison and is currently at a halfway house in Philadelphia, online records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirm. He will remain there until Oct. 15.
Nida, 40, was arrested in January 2014 and pleaded guilty to bank fraud and identity theft months later.
“On behalf of my client Apollo, right now he feels remorse. He thought the judge was fair, and accepts his sentence, although he was hoping it would be less,” Nida’s lawyer Thomas D. Bever told PEOPLE at the time.
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“Apollo is elated that this proceeding is past him and is no longer handing over his head. It meant everything to him that his mother and brother spoke on his behalf. He’s OK, and will get through this.”
He was initiallysentenced to 96 monthsin prison and entered the Fort Dix Correctional Facility in New Jersey in July 2014.
The prison is the same place whereTeresa Giudice’s husbandJoe Giudiceserved timebefore he was transferredto Pennsylvania and was later placed in an ICE detainment center.
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Bever did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.OK!magazine was the first to report news of his release.
Nida previously served time from 2004 to 2009 for auto title fraud.
He married Parks, 45, in 2009, and the couple split in 2014 before he left for prison. The two – whose divorce was finalized in 2017 – share sons Ayden, 9, and Dylan, 5.
Both have since moved on, with Nida engaged to Sherien Almufti, whofamously made an appearanceonRHOA’s ninth season.
“She’s more than cute. Sometimes you gotta upgrade,” Nida told pal Todd Tucker on the show while calling from prison. “I’m a one-woman man.”
Parks, meanwhile,went public in Januarywith her new boyfriend Tone Kapone.
source: people.com
