Jen Shah Who Just Got 6.5 Years in Federal Prison for a Fraud Scheme “Vows to Pay Her Debt”
Lily Fisher
Published Jan 11, 2026
Jen Shah got 78 months (6.5 years) in jail as far as it matters for her in setting up a misrepresentation plot. Friday, the Genuine Housewives of Salt Lake City star went to court in New York subsequent to conceding to her part in the telemarketing plan. Sharrieff, Shah’s better half, and their two children, Sharrieff Jr. furthermore, Omar, were in court when the choice was made.
Shah’s lawyer Priya Chaudhry gave an assertion to Individuals after the choice: “Jen Shah profoundly laments the slip-ups that she has made and is significantly sorry to individuals she has harmed. Jen has confidence in our equity framework, comprehends that anybody who oversteps the law will be rebuffed, and acknowledges this sentence as.
Jen will serve her sentence and when she is a liberated person once more, she commitments to pay her obligation to the casualties hurt by her mix-ups.”
Friday morning, Judge Sidney Stein addressed the court, which was full. As per Ghetto Press’ Matthew Russell Lee, Judge Stein told participants: “Jen Shah’s job on The Genuine Housewives of Salt Lake City, which I suppose is the reason the court is so full today, is only that, a job. Individuals shouldn’t confound the person she plays on a diversion show to the individual before me.”
Lee revealed what Shah said whenever she got an opportunity to talk “I’m heartbroken. My activities have harmed blameless individuals.
Todd Chrisley looking at Jen Shah’s 6.5 year sentence compared to his 12 year sentence
— Christian Snow (@theCGSshow) January 6, 2023
I need to apologize by saying, I’m giving my best for acquire the assets to pay compensation.” Partner U.S. Lawyer Robert Sobelman referred to Shah’s wrongdoings as “baldfaced misrepresentation” before he gave her a sentence. Per Lee, Sobelman added, “Each cooperator told us, ‘Jen Shah is the chief.’ They all knew what her identity was.”
Lee expresses that under the steady gaze of that, Judge Stein had let Chaudhry know that her client “was the head of this plot.” Judge Stein proceeded, “So this cuts against you, not so much for you.” Chaudhry later answered, “Jen has gone through month perusing the names of those she has harmed. She has petitioned God for their pardoning.
In any case, she can’t excuse herself. Jen comprehends she can’t fix the aggravation or reimburse them today — yet today is about equity for them. Estimating the aggravation.”
Afterward, when she made sense of her client’s reasons, she said, “Jen trusted that the television light would conceal her aggravation. She went through years attempting to conceal her inclination, to counterfeit it until she make them. She did whatever it takes not to see individuals who lost cash. Her unique misrepresentation was on herself.”
It truly breaks my heart to see what greed does to innocent people! STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR JEN SHAH’S ACTIONS! SHE DESERVED MORE THAN 6.5 YEARS!!
How can anyone support a monster who stole from elderly people and their hard earned money?! #RHOSLC— MarTEAnis With Eddy (@MarTEAnisEddy) January 6, 2023
Stein countered, “Her action in this wrongdoing occurred a long time before The Genuine Housewives of Salt Lake City began.
So you are saying her yearn for knickknacks originates before the show?” Chaudhry said, to a limited extent: “Seniors, her casualties, are instructing her.
She laments the mix-ups she has made. She is heartbroken. She had confidence in our equity framework. Jen will serve her sentence.”
Chaudhry shut, “Ms. Shah will praise her 50th birthday celebration in a government jail. … Then she will attempt to make entire the people who lost cash.
Yet again she will do right by her elderly folks.” She said later, “Longstanding untreated mental issues made me make my own cracked reality.
This is a cauldron second for me. With the appropriate drug I can now see what occurred. I want to have remained external myself. I’m heartbroken.”
Shah tended to her more youthful child and her dad: “To my child Omar, Mom is so sorry you were awakened at gunpoint. My late dad, I need to let him know I’m heartbroken.
I’m lowered by your affection for me.” With no further words from Shah, Judge Stein proclaimed, “I will likely force a sentence of 78 months of detainment, and different circumstances.”
Shah will begin serving his experience on February 17. Judge Stein didn’t say where Shah will do her experience on Friday, yet he said that it will be in the “Texas area.” Shah was additionally condemned to five years of regulated discharge after her delivery from prison by Judge Stein. Stein noticed this was finished “to ensure you don’t end up perpetrating another wrongdoing.”
Sharrieff approached Jen after the sentence was given and gave her a kiss and an embrace.
Jen Shah’s prison sentence is shorter than the amount of time it took for She by Sheree to launch #RHOA #RHOSLC
— SHEA FROM THE BAY (@SheaFromTheBay) January 6, 2023
She then, at that point, strolled into the stands without showing any inclination and embraced her mom and her children. The Shahs left the town hall not long after that.
Shah, who was 49 years of age, and Stuart Smith, who worked for her, were captured in Walk 2021 for running a telephone trick to take cash from individuals more than 55.
Afterward, obviously the trick depended on the possibility that the casualties could take a mentoring course that would set them up for a paid deals work. Indeed, even after Smith conceded in November 2021, Shah continued to say she was blameless. She did this until July 2022, when she took a supplication bargain and conceded in court that she was essential for the plan.
The U.S. government maintained that Shah should get 10 years in jail, yet the request bargain said he would get somewhere in the range of 11 and 14 years.
Shah asked the court in December for his sentence to be chopped down to only three years. “The horrendous business choices I made and proficient connections I created originated from a few individual difficult encounters that I was carrying on with in my life,” she wrote in the solicitation, as detailed by CNN.
Shah might have been imprisoned for as long as 30 years for the wrongdoing, however she had previously made a deal to avoid engaging in the event that her sentence was under 14 years.
Individuals got court reports that showed what Shah’s alleged bad behaviors meant for individuals who were harmed. One man said he “squandered about $40,000 attempting to accomplish something beneficial for my family,” while one more said they paid $100,000. Two individuals who gave articulations about the trick said that it caused them to lose their homes.
Chaudhry told Individuals at that point: “Ms. Shah is crushed by the enduring she has caused these individuals. She promises to devote her life to attempting to restore every one.”
Between her capture and her condemning, Shah recorded a few episodes of RHOSLC, yet she didn’t film the impending season 3 gathering…