Jen Shah

After she was arrested, Shah used the catchphrase “the only thing I'm guilty of is being Shah-mazing” on the show.

Last month, Todd and Julie Chrisley, the stars of the USA Network’s Chrisley Knows Best were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison after being found guilty of bank and tax fraud. Just one week before the trial was supposed to start, Shah pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. [said](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/reality-show-cast-members-charged-running-nationwide-telemarketing-fraud-scheme) Shah and Smith “defrauded hundreds of victims” and “generated and sold ‘lead lists’ of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam” adding they “built their opulent lifestyle at the expense of vulnerable, often elderly, working-class people.” Smith has not yet been sentenced, and several others who were charged in the scheme pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to several years in prison. After she was arrested, Smith pleaded guilty in November and was expected to testify at Shah’s trial, which had been delayed several times. Shah, who has starred on her Real Housewives franchise since it premiered in 2020, is known for being over-the-top and combative, making her a fan favorite. “Reality TV has nothing to do with reality, even my tagline,” she said through tears, according to

Shah pleaded guilty in July 2022 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. ... The reality star's criminal charges stem from an alleged telemarketing scheme and she's ...

"Ms. "Despite the defendant's best efforts, she got caught. Jen will pay her debt to society and when she is a free woman again, she vows to pay her debt to the victims harmed by her mistakes." "It's not as if she simply sent a computer file to someone." "I am profoundly and deeply sorry," Shah said. "No victim ever earned any of the promised returns." "She was too important. Shah's life she will remember their names," Chaudhry said of the victims. Shah knows she has devastated the lives of so many." Chaudhry said Shah is no longer selling the items and has saved the proceeds for restitution. People should not confuse, and this court is not going to confuse, the character she plays on an entertainment show with the person I have before me." She must also pay restitution to victims of the nationwide telemarketing scheme that prosecutors said targeted elderly, vulnerable victims.

RHOSLC's Jen Shah has been sentenced to 78 months in prison. She was arrested in March 2021 on wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a ...

[changed his plea](https://www.eonline.com/news/1310478/jen-shahs-assistant-stuart-smith-changes-plea-to-guilty-in-telemarketing-scheme-case) to guilty in November 2021. And the idea of Jen not returning for the show's fourth season is something co-star [Heather Gay](https://www.eonline.com/news/1357719/why-rhoslcs-heather-gay-doesnt-want-to-think-about-a-season-4-without-jen-shah) previously [told E! News](https://www.eonline.com/news/1357719/why-rhoslcs-heather-gay-doesnt-want-to-think-about-a-season-4-without-jen-shah) is the "smallest thing, blip on her radar right now." Meredith went on to say she believed that Jen wasn't given the proper chance to defend herself amid her legal drama. [pleading guilty](https://www.eonline.com/news/1337497/real-housewives-of-salt-lake-citys-jen-shah-pleads-guilty-in-fraud-case) to federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in July 2022, the [Real Housewives of Salt Lake City](https://www.eonline.com/news/the_real_housewives_of_salt_lake_city) star was sentenced to 78 months in prison—or six and a half years—in Federal Court in Manhattan on Jan. "It's a lot, so anyone in her shoes would be struggling with a lot of different things. She obviously has a lot of variables being thrown at her well beyond her sentencing." "I'm trying not to let it cloud my thoughts either," Heather added. I think that was kind of, unfortunately, the end of, you know, the engagement there," he explained, adding that he has "a lot of questions for her." [Last month](https://www.eonline.com/news/1358400/rhoslcs-meredith-marks-shares-insight-into-jen-shahs-final-days-before-sentencing), Meredith gave E! The judge imposed no monetary fine on Jen and she must report to prison on Feb. Jen and her team recommended a minimum-security prison in Texas but her reporting location is still being determined.

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah has been sentenced to 6.5 years, or 78 months, in prison for wire fraud. “My intention is to impose a ...

“Reality TV has nothing to do with reality,” she said. The home, they said, is now listed for sale for $7.4 million. At the start of Shah’s sentencing hearing, Stein cautioned a packed Manhattan courtroom that he was not sentencing the person people see on television. Stein said that person is “simply a character. Stein presided over her guilty plea in July to a conspiracy charge for participating in a massive fraud for nearly a decade. Stein announced the sentence for Jennifer Shah after she sobbed while apologizing for the fraud.

SHAH previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “With today's ...

In addition to the prison term, SHAH, 49, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced to five years of supervised release. Sobelman, and Sheb Swett are in charge of the prosecution. She directed others to lie, she put businesses and bank accounts in the name of others, she required payment in cash, she instructed others to delete text messages and electronic documents, she moved some of her operations overseas, and she tried to put computers and other evidence beyond the reach of investigators. These individuals were lured in by false promises of financial security, but in reality, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it. From at least 2012 until her arrest in March 2021, SHAH was an integral leader of a wide-ranging, nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that victimized thousands of innocent people. Stein to 78 months in prison for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme.