Jen Shah of 'Real Housewives' gets 6 1/2-year prison term
NEW YORK -- 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 6½ years in prison for defrauding thousands of people, many of them vulnerable or older, in a telemarketing scam that stretched nearly a decade.
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. "For years I blamed other people for putting me in this position," believing she was duped and manipulated, she said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman said Shah was a leader of a"clear and brazen fraud" that stretched from 2012 to March 2021 as bogus services were promoted as enabling people to make substantial amounts of money through online businesses. He called her the most culpable among more than 30 defendants.
They said she also rented an apartment in midtown Manhattan, leased a Porsche Panamera, bought hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of luxury goods and funded various cosmetic procedures while cheating the Internal Revenue Service of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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