'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star Jen Shah is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in connection with her fraud case.
Jen Shah walks out of court after pleading guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" reality TV star Jen Shah is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Manhattan on Friday in connection with her fraud case.to one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing.
Federal prosecutors say she admitted she victimized 10 or more persons over the age of 55 as part of the plea.Shah, 48, of Park City, Utah, faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. As part of her guilty plea, she also agreed to forfeit $6.5 million and to pay restitution up to $9.5 million."I’m fighting this.
Some co-conspirators in the case, including Shah's longtime assistant Stuart Smith, had already pleaded guilty.In announcing her guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: "Jennifer Shah was a key participant in a nationwide scheme that targeted elderly, vulnerable victims. These victims were sold false promises of financial security but instead, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it.
Prosecutors said that from 2012 until March 2021, Jennifer Shah and others carried out a wide-ranging telemarketing scheme that defrauded hundreds of victims throughout the United States, many of whom were over age 55, by selling them so-called "business services" in connection with the victims’ purported online businesses.
In order to perpetrate the scheme, Shah and others engaged in a widespread, coordinated effort to traffic in lists of potential victims, or "leads," many of whom had previously made an initial investment to create an online business with other participants in the scheme.
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