‘RHOSLC’ Star Jen Shah Sentenced To 6.5 Years In Prison For Telemarketing Fraud Case

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Jen Shah, 48, was sentenced to 6 and a fractional years (78 months) successful situation for her relation in the telemarketing scheme, which defrauded hundreds of mostly elder citizens retired of millions of dollars. SDNY Judge Sidney Stein handed down the determination connected January 6 to The Real House of Salt Lake City star and her ineligible team, according to NBC News. Jen is besides facing 5 years supervised release. Her hubby Sharrieff and their sons, Sharrieff Jr. and Omar, were besides contiguous astatine the tribunal location for the sentencing.

Jen pleaded guilty to her engagement successful the strategy successful July 2022. She primitively pleaded not blameworthy aft being arrested successful March 2021 and charged with fraud, arsenic good arsenic her erstwhile assistant, Stuart Smith. However, Stuart ended up turning connected Jen and withdrew his blameworthy plea successful Nov. 2021.

“Ms. Shah is simply a bully pistillate who crossed a line. She accepts afloat work for her actions and profoundly apologizes to each who person been harmed,” Jennifer’s lawyer said successful a connection to PEOPLE following her blameworthy plea. “Ms. Shah is besides atrocious for disappointing her husband, children, family, friends, and supporters. Jen pled blameworthy due to the fact that she wants to wage her indebtedness to nine and enactment this ordeal down her and her family.”

One of Jen’s supporters who was surely disappointed was Bravo enforcement producer Andy Cohen, 54. “I’m upset, and I’m particularly upset for her victims,” helium said connected the July 13 occurrence of his Sirius XM amusement Radio Andy, which was 2 days aft the blameworthy plea. “I’m upset that she lied for truthful agelong and claimed to maine that she was an illustration of idiosyncratic being wrongly accused.”

Jen’s 6.5 twelvemonth condemnation is simply a stark opposition to the archetypal 50 years she was facing erstwhile she pleaded not guilty. “She faces a statutory maximum condemnation of 30 years connected the complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud. She besides faces different 20 years connected the wealth laundering charge,” transgression defence lawyer Brandon Sample told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY pursuing her archetypal plea. He added that helium would lone expect a five-to-10-year sentence.

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