Jen Shah, ‘RHOSLC’ Star, Slapped With 6 Year Prison Sentence for Running Telemarketing Scheme

Jen Shah has been sentenced to 78 months, or six-and-a-half years, in prison for her role in a telemarketing scheme. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star was sentenced in federal court in New York City on Friday, where she “showed no visible reaction” to her prison sentence, per NBC News.

Following her prison stay, Shah will also serve five years of supervised release. Judge Sidney Stein, who was presiding over the case, said Shah was responsible for “thousands of elderly people” losing “tens of millions of dollars.”

“I don’t know if she appreciates the harm she has caused, I hope she has, I heard the words. Those people have no way of being made full again … If they are financially, they won’t be emotionally,” Stein said, per NBC.

Her sentence is a compromise between what prosectors and her own lawyers sought. Prosecutor Robert Sobelman accused Shah of only being “concerned about herself,” and pointed to the victims of her scheme, whom he described as “older vulnerable people whose lives were turned upside down by the defendant’s telemarketing scam.”

Shah was facing 10 years in prison for allegedly running a telemarketing scam in which she defrauded elderly people, but her lawyers requested a three-year sentence after she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in July.

During her plea hearing, Shah admitted that the services she provided through her scheme were essentially bogus, saying, “From 2012 to March 2021 in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, I agreed with others to commit wire fraud,” and adding, “I did this by knowingly providing customer names to people who were marketing business services that had little or no value,” per The New York Post.

Prosecutors claimed that Shah’s victims “were defrauded over and over again until they had nothing left,” yet the reality star “and her co-conspirators persisted in their conduct until the victims’ bank accounts were empty, their credit cards were at their limits, and there was nothing more to take,” perThe New York Post.

Her sentencing comes after she spent two years on RHOSLC, where she portrayed a lavish lifestyle with elaborate social events, designer clothes and a massive home she shared with her husband and children. During the first season of the Bravo reality show, Shah told her co-stars she made “millions,” per Page Six.