In a brand new interview, Jen Shah shared her last ideas earlier than she formally reported to her 78 months jail sentence.
the Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star, 49, sat down along with her lawyer for a video interview launched on Friday, February 17, forward of her give up to the Federal Jail Camp, Bryan (FPC Bryan) in Texas.
“There’s so many feelings that I am feeling proper at this second and on the point of give up is emotional,” Shah mentioned. “You recognize I would be mendacity if I mentioned I wasn’t nervous and scared. As a result of to be away from my household, that is what I worry essentially the most is you already know that transition of not having the ability to hug and kiss my boys and my husband every single day and my mother and however on the similar time, all of these feelings I additionally really feel hopeful and am motivated to do an excellent job, you already know, and profit from my time away.”
The Utah native was arrested in March 2021 — in the course of the manufacturing of season 2 of RHOSLC — for an alleged telemarketing scheme that defrauded “a whole lot” of individuals. Shah was charged, alongside her assistant Stuart Smithfor conspiracy to commit wire fraud in reference to telemarketing and conspiracy to commit cash laundering.
“Jennifer Shah, who portrayed herself as a rich and profitable businessperson on ‘actuality’ tv, and Stuart Smith, who’s portrayed as Shah’s ‘first assistant,’ allegedly generated and bought ‘lead lists’ of harmless people for different members of their scheme to repeatedly rip-off,” Manhattan US Legal professional Audrey Strauss mentioned in a press launch on the time of the pair’s arrest. “In precise actuality and as alleged, the so-called enterprise pushed alternatives on the victims by Shah, Smith, and their co-conspirators have been simply fraudulent schemes, motivated by greed, to steal the victims’ cash. Now, these defendants face time in jail for his or her alleged crimes.”
Whereas the truth star maintained her innocence at first, she ended up altering her plea to responsible for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in July 2022. (Smith additionally pleaded responsible in November 2021.)
“In 2012 to March 2021 within the Southern District of New York and elsewhere I agreed with others to commit wire fraud,” she mentioned in courtroom on the time. “I knew this was improper. I knew many individuals have been harm and I am so sorry.”
In January, the Bravo character was formally sentenced to 6 and a half years in jail and 5 years of supervised launch. She can be required to pay $6,645,251 in change and forfeit $6,500,000, 30 luxurious objects and 78 counterfeit luxurious objects. Shah was ordered to report back to her sentence no later than February 17.
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