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After being sentenced to six and a fractional years successful situation connected Jan. 6, Jen Shah's lawyer shared an update astir The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star's aboriginal successful a connection to E! News.
RHOSLC's Jen Shah Sentenced to 6.5 Years successful Prison for Fraud
Jen Shah is acceptable to look the music.
After a national justice sentenced The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City prima to six and a fractional years successful situation for fraud connected Jan. 6, the Bravo star's lawyer is speaking retired astir her future.
"Jen Shah profoundly regrets the mistakes that she has made and is profoundly atrocious to the radical she has hurt," Jen's attorney Priya Chaudhry said successful a connection to E! News. "Jen has religion successful our justness system, understands that anyone who breaks the instrumentality volition beryllium punished, and accepts this condemnation arsenic just. Jen volition wage her indebtedness to nine and erstwhile she is simply a escaped pistillate again, she vows to wage her indebtedness to the victims harmed by her mistakes."
During the sentencing, the justice imposed nary monetary good connected Jen. She indispensable study to situation connected Feb. 17 and her squad recommended a minimum-security situation successful Texas, but her reporting determination is inactive being determined. After getting out, she'll beryllium connected supervised merchandise for 5 years.
Jen's sentencing comes almost 2 years aft she and her erstwhile adjunct Stuart Smith were arrested successful March 2021 connected charges of ligament fraud and wealth laundering successful transportation to a nationwide telemarketing scheme. A fewer months later, Stuart changed his guiltless plea to guilty successful November 2021, and Jen aboriginal did the aforesaid connected July 11.
The world star's fraud case has been a big focus on RHOSLC's existent 3rd season. On the show's Jan. 4 episode, Jen got affectional during a speech with her therapist astir however her ineligible troubles person affected her intelligence health.
"I consciousness similar I'm not successful control," Jen admitted. "I'm astatine an adjacent deeper and darker spot and I'm dealing with different level of depression—daily anxiety—that is paralyzing."
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And contempt being concerned about her future, she expressed she was much acrophobic about 16-year-old lad Omar—whom she shares with hubby Sharrieff Shah—stating, "I'm disquieted arsenic a mom, like, person I done thing wherever it's affected Omar? Basically, did I f--k my kids up?"
Having to sermon her ineligible play connected the amusement is wherefore Jen chose to skip retired connected filming for the upcoming RHOSLC season 3 reunion—hosted by Andy Cohen—with co-stars Lisa Barlow, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks and Whitney Rose, arsenic good arsenic bid friends-of Angie Katsanevas, Danna Bui-Negrete and Angie Harrington.
"I was wide with Bravo that retired of respect oregon the courts and a lasting judicial order," Jen wrote successful a Dec. 16 Instagram statement, "I would not beryllium successful a presumption to sermon thing related to my ineligible lawsuit oregon sentencing."
Stating that the web recovered her determination "unsatisfactory," Jen made the determination not to attend. "That anticipation has nary respect for maine oregon my family's well-being," her post concludes. "So nether ineligible advice, I volition not beryllium attending the reunion. I request to absorption connected the astir important happening successful my life—my family."
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected Bravo.
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