Jen Shah of 'Real Housewives' gets 6 1/2-year prison term

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Jen Shah of ‘Real Housewives’ gets 6 1/2-year prison term

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
January 6, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Shah, a tearful member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” who insisted she is not the character she plays on the show, was sentenced Friday to 6 1/2 years in prison for defrauding thousands of people, many of them vulnerable or older, in a telemarketing scam that stretched nearly a decade.

Shah, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein as a leader of a nationwide fraud that targeted people who were often unsophisticated electronically and could least afford to lose their money.

Shah pleaded guilty in July to a conspiracy charge. Prosecutors sought a 10-year prison term, which would have been a year under the federal sentencing guidelines’ minimum recommendation but well above the three years in prison that Shah’s lawyer suggested.

At the outset of Friday’s hearing, Stein cautioned a courtroom packed with Shah’s family and friends and members of the media that he was not sentencing the person people see on television.

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[Tree-Hugger]

1. Heartbreaking

I listened to some of those phone calls and read texts between her and her fellow scammers. It's so disgusting.

[sdfernando]

2. So there is nothing real about The Real Housewives franchise???

"insisted she is not the character she plays on the show"
As I've told many many people. There is nothing real in a "reality" show.