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RHOSLC's Jen Shah Sentenced to 6.5 Years successful Prison for Fraud
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City prima Jen Shah is facing the commencement of her conviction.
After she was sentenced to serve six-and-a-half years successful prison successful her fraud case, Jen reported to a national situation successful Bryan, Texas on Feb. 17, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirms to E! News.
The bureau added successful a statement, "For privacy, safety, and information reasons, we bash not merchandise accusation connected the conditions of confinement for immoderate inmate oregon radical of inmates."
Jen pleaded blameworthy successful July 2022 aft she was arrested connected ligament fraud and wealth laundering charges successful transportation with a telemarketing strategy in March 2021.
"Jen Shah's resoluteness to marque her victims full and to crook her beingness astir is unyielding," her attorney, Priya Chaudhry, tells E! News successful a statement. "She is committed to serving her condemnation with courageousness and purpose, fueled by her tendency to marque amends for the wounded she has caused and to assistance others successful her caller community."
She continued, "No obstacle volition deter Jen from making the astir of her clip successful situation and she's determined to marque restitution to those whose lives she has impacted."
Noting that her "path up volition beryllium filled with challenges," her lawyer added that "with the unwavering emotion and enactment of her household and friends, Jen is prepared to look these challenges head-on and look from this acquisition a amended idiosyncratic who makes a affirmative interaction connected others."
In March 2021, the 49-year-old—who shares 2 sons Sharrieff Jr. and Omar with hubby Sharrieff Shah—and her erstwhile adjunct Stuart Smith were arrested connected ligament fraud and wealth laundering charges successful transportation with a nationwide telemarketing scheme.
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Eight months later, Stuart pleaded guilty to his charges, with Jen later doing the aforesaid a week earlier her lawsuit was acceptable to spell to proceedings past July.
Ahead of her sentencing, Jen explained that not wanting to sermon her existent ineligible occupation during the RHOSLC reunion was the main crushed wherefore viewers would not spot her contiguous successful the three-part peculiar that aired successful January, contempt wanting to "confront inaccuracies."
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"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 said she not to attend, explaining that the "expectation has nary respect for maine oregon my family's well-being."
She concluded, "I request to absorption connected the astir important happening successful my life—my family."
She besides aboriginal clarified that she wouldn't beryllium participating successful a one-on-one beryllium down interview with enforcement producer Andy Cohen, stating that determination was an "unwillingness to region contractual provisions."
(E! News reached retired to Bravo for remark astatine the clip and had not heard back).
Last December, Jen's castmate, Meredith Marks, shared penetration into however Jen was doing in the days earlier her sentencing.
"It's a lot, truthful anyone successful her shoes would beryllium struggling with a batch of antithetic things," she told E! News at the time. "She evidently has a batch of variables being thrown astatine her good beyond her sentencing."
Meredith went connected to explicate she doesn't deliberation Jen had the accidental to support herself successful the midst of her ineligible battle.
"I deliberation that it's been a precise trying clip due to the fact that to spell done this and consciousness similar you don't person a dependable connected apical of everything other that she's facing, it's overwhelming," Meredith shared. "She conscionable tries to absorption connected the time to time arsenic champion she can."
After the extremity of her situation sentence, Jen volition beryllium connected supervised merchandise for 5 years.
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