Jen Shah could be spending a complete decade behind bars for her telemarketing fraud…
As you recognize, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star shockingly pled responsible in July to committing “wire fraud” and knowingly providing faux companies to folks “over the age of 55.” Last we heard, Jen doubtlessly confronted as much as 14 years behind bars and might be compelled to shell out as much as $9.5 million in restitution in her January 2023 sentencing. But 14 years is a most, how lengthy is she actually taking a look at? We’re speaking months, proper? Well, form of. The US authorities is saying they need her in jail for 120 months.
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In courtroom paperwork obtained by People on Friday, the federal government defined their reasoning for requesting Jen get a full 10 years, saying the Bravolebrity “took a series of increasingly extravagant steps to conceal her criminal conduct from the authorities” and “engaged in a years-long, comprehensive effort to hide her continued role in the scheme”:
“For nearly a decade, the defendant was an integral leader of a wide-ranging, nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that victimized thousands of innocent people. Many of those people were elderly or vulnerable. Many of those people suffered significant financial hardship and damage. At the defendant’s direction, victims were defrauded over and over again until they had nothing left. She 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.”
Decade of victimizing, decade of jail? Oof.
The paperwork additionally argued the truth TV star is “the most culpable person charged in this case,” that means she ought to get the largest sentence. They additionally say her habits after her arrest ought to warrant an extended sentence, together with when she “on a public offensive against the charges and tried to profit off the charges by selling ‘Justice for Jen’ merchandise”. They even blast her so-called apologies, saying her “belated expressions of remorse ring hollow.” Because of all this, the authorized system believes 10 YEARS in jail is “sufficient.”
Will she actually get that lengthy??
The Bravo star received’t be again on the present anytime quickly, both approach. You could bear in mind throughout BravoCon 2022 government producer Andy Cohen revealed as soon as season 3 was executed, that was the top of “the engagement”:
“Once we wrapped [Season 3 and] she pled guilty, I think that was kind of, unfortunately, the end of, you know, the engagement there. But I hope to sit down with her and talk to her at some point on camera because I have a lot of questions for her.”
Jen continues to be dealing with her courtroom date in January, and we really hope she’s in a greater place now amid the entire steady authorized battles. As for justice, nicely… what do YOU suppose, Perezcious paralegals?
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