In connection with telemarketing, Jennifer Shah, the star of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” entered a plea of guilty on Monday. According to the Department of Justice, Shah, 48, may get a maximum term of 30 years in jail.
Shah entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud using telemarketing, through which she harmed 10 or more people over the age of 55. Moreover, she consented to forfeit $6.5 million and make reparation payments of up to $9.5 million.
Shah and Others Are Accused of Running a Massive Telemarketing Scam that Duped Hundreds of People.
Shah is accused of participating in a large-scale telemarketing operation that defrauded hundreds of victims across the United States by pitching them phony “business services” in connection with their fictitious web firms.
Shah, who is located in Park City, Utah, started running a sales floor in Manhattan in 2017 to target victims on lead lists with downstream “business opportunity” products.
Many of The Victims on The Lead Lists Had Already Invested Money to Start Online Businesses.
Many of the victims on the lead lists have already invested money in the beginning stages of starting an online business with other scammers. Jen Shah is charged with providing leads to other participants for their telemarketing efforts “with the knowledge that the individuals they had identified as ‘leads’ would be defrauded by the other Participants, including by lying to Victims about how much they would earn after purchasing the business services and the purported success of others who had purchased the services,” according to a news release from the DOJ.
Between 2018 and 2020, According to The Doj, Shah Was in Charge of The Daily Operations of The Manhattan Sales Floor.
According to the DOJ, Shah oversaw daily operations on the Manhattan sales floor between 2018 and 2020, among other things by moving some operations to Kosovo to escape regulatory and law enforcement monitoring.
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Shah and Her Business Partner Stuart Smith Were Both Detained and Charged in March 2021.
In March 2021, Shah and Stuart Smith, her business partner, were both detained and charged. The two, according to HSI Special Agent-in-Charge Peter C. Fitzhugh, “flaunted their opulent lifestyle to the public as a symbol of their success.”
Fitzhugh claimed that in actuality, the wealthy individuals reportedly constructed their affluent lifestyle at the expense of weak, frequently elderly, working-class individuals.
“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” on Bravo covered her arrest in detail. Smith was portrayed as Shah’s “helper” in the reality series. A rift between the two was brought on by the legal issues. Shah first maintained her innocence on the show while Smith initially entered a plea of not guilty.