JEN SHAH GUILTY TV
Weeks before sentencing, Shah’s attorneys asked the judge not to hold her behavior on the show against her, saying what people saw on TV was a caricature created by the editors.
Heather Gay, one cast member, asked, “What if she’s on the run?”Īfter her arrest, she insisted that she was innocent and used the tagline “ The only thing I’m guilty of is being Shah-mazing.” Federal authorities used the line against Shah in sentencing papers, saying that it showed that she was mocking the legal system. She asked another cast member to turn off her microphone, then said she had to leave because her husband was in the hospital and had “internal bleeding.” Moments later, a helicopter and several agents, including Homeland Security and the NYPD, circled the women. As the cast sat in a van, preparing to leave for a girls’ trip to Vail, Shah received a phone call from her husband. Shah’s March 2021 arrest played out dramatically on the show’s second season and has become one of the most quoted, memed, and discussed moments in Housewives history. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, noted that Shah 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.” Shah, prosecutors said, was committing crimes “day in and day out.” In court documents filed in December, prosecutors said that she was “an integral leader of a wide-ranging, nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that victimized thousands of innocent people.” They added that, at her direction, “victims were defrauded over and over again until they had nothing left.” Damian Williams, U.S.
Prosecutors sought to remind the court of the fact that she not only participated in defrauding the elderly but directed others to do so. Shah is so likable on Real Housewives that it can be hard to remember the depth of the cruelty and criminality of the actions that led her to prison. Generally speaking, if you have to call on the elders, you’re in a bad place. district court judge Sidney Stein to pass down a lenient sentence - an effort that included saying Shah has spoken with “elders” in Hawaii and is now learning from those elders as well as the victims she defrauded - Shah received the sentence. Chaudhry said that Shah wouldn’t forget what kind of damage she’s caused, that she had been living in an “echo chamber of her own denial” but knew that she had to face the truth after seeing the government present its evidence last summer.ĭespite Chaudhry’s creative attempts at convincing U.S. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Shah to ten years in prison, saying that was the appropriate amount of time for someone who had harmed others and only been “concerned about herself.” Shah’s lawyer, Priya Chaudhry asked for three years.
A money-laundering charge was dropped as part of the plea deal, which she entered after months of passionately and repeatedly claiming that she had no knowledge of illegal behavior connected to her. In July, Shah pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for running a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly people out of thousands of dollars. Jen Shah, a former fixture of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City known for her love of couture clothing, designer accessories, and eyebrow-raising hairstyles, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison on Friday, NBC reports. Photo: Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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