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Jen Shah, one of the stars of Bravo’s Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City, was sentenced Friday to 6.5 years in prison and five years of supervised release for her role in a telemarketing scheme, after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to commit wire fraud—one of the many reality stars to recently face legal trouble.
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New York-based federal Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced Shah and pushed back on the idea that her business could have done any good, saying: “What good things could she have been doing, calling elderly people and selling them business opportunities and they would max out their credit cards and get the person to put down an additional credit card and then upsell them for other products?”
Shah requested a sentence of only 36 months, or three years, while the government said she should serve 120 months, or 10 years—noting she sold “Justice For Jen” merchandise after she was arrested—and a probation report recommended she serve 72 months, or six years.
She agreed to pay up to nearly $6.7 million in restitution and forfeit $6.5 million, 30 luxury items and 78 counterfeit luxury items,
Shah must report to prison by February 17.
