Playing Stupid Games: This Real Housewives Star Gets Prison Sentence For Participation In Scam (Video)

By Ryan Canady | Monday, 09 January 2023 10:25 AM
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Playing Stupid Games: This Real Housewives Star Gets Prison Sentence For Participation In Scam (Video)

Jennifer Shah, most famously known as a member of the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was sentenced to a 6.5-year prison sentence for defrauding thousands of people in a telemarketing scam, according to reporting by Breitbart.

The U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced Shah as a leader in a nationwide fraud targeting the elderly and vulnerable. The scam sought to defraud those less sophisticated than others with electronics, and the scam sought to take money away from those who could not afford to pay the money.

Shah pled guilty to a conspiracy charge, and the prosecutors sought a 10-year sentence for her crimes. This was higher than the 3-year sentence that Shah’s lawyers pleaded for. Instead, the judge split the difference and went with a 6.5-year sentence for these crimes. This is something that judges will sometimes do when there is a big difference between the sentences that both sides are advocating for.

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The judge made it clear to everyone in the courtroom that he was not sentencing the character people saw on television. Instead, he wanted to make it clear that the person who was being sentenced was a natural person, and that person deserved to meet the justice that any of the rest of us would have to face if we were to commit a similar crime.

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Shah apologized to the people she had hurt, and she even agreed to pay back $6.5 million to the victims of her crimes after serving her prison sentence. She said the following:

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“I struggled to accept responsibility for the longest time because I deluded myself into believing … that I did nothing wrong.”

She continued with what seemed to be a sincere apology by saying: “I alone am responsible for my terrible decisions. It was all my fault and all my wrongdoing.”

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“I have no one to blame but myself. … I wish I could have stood outside myself, seen the harm I was causing, and changed course. I am profoundly and deeply sorry.”

Despite all of this, there are still a lot of hurt victims who might not be as ready to move on with their lives after all they have been put through. It is a lot to go through, and some still feel this pain today.

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