Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Can't Afford Lawyer To Help Fight Tax Fraud Charges: Report

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is in the market for a new attorney.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Wigenton Friday rejected the former “Jersey Shore” star claim that he’s too broke to pay for a lawyer to help him fight federal tax fraud charges.

Sorrentino’s attorney, Richard Sapinski, asked Wigenton to let him stop representing Sorrentino because, he claimed, Sorrentino was not able to pay him, The Record reported.

“Michael is a nice, young man,” Sapinski told the newspaper, noting that he continues to believe his former client did “nothing criminally wrong.”

Sorrentino and his brother, Marc, have been indicted on charges of filing false business and personal tax returns between 2010 and 2012, the report states. They allegedly failed to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income earned from promotional activities. The pair also wrote off luxury cars, clothing, and personal grooming bills as business costs.

Sorrentino asked Wigenton to appoint him a taxpayer-funded attorney because he could not pay for one himself, a request Wigenton rejected, NJ.com reported.

“I definitely need some time to find an attorney because I really don’t have much left in the bank,” Sorrention told Wigenton, NJ.com reported. Sorrentino will have until Oct. 14 to hire a new attorney.

Marc Sorrention was assigned a court-appointed attorney in June after he told authorities he had no savings, The Record reported. The brothers were scheduled to stand trial in September, but that will likely be pushed back past October now that Michael Sorrention must hire a new attorney.

(Pictured: Michael “The Situation” Sorentino/Patch file photo)