Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Jen Shah Surrenders to Begin 6.5-Year Prison Sentence

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Jen Shah has officially reported to prison on Friday, February 17, to begin her 78 months behind bars, Us Weekly can confirm.The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star, 49, requested to serve her sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Bryan (FPC Bryan) in Texas — the same facility where Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked to serve her 11-year sentence, which is set to begin in April.

Shah was ordered in January to surrender by February 17.Shah’s sentence — which also includes five years of supervised release — requires her to pay $6,645,251 in restitution and forfeit $6,500,000, 30 luxury items and 78 counterfeit luxury items.“With today’s sentence, Jennifer Shah finally faces the consequences of the many years she spent targeting vulnerable, elderly victims,” U.S.

Attorney Damian Williams said in a press release at the time. “These individuals were lured in by false promises of financial security, but in reality, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it.

This conviction and sentence demonstrate once again that we will continue to vigorously protect victims of financial fraud and hold accountable those who engage in fraudulent schemes.”Shah was arrested in March 2021 — during the production of season 2 of RHOSLC — and she maintained her innocence until July 2022 when she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.“In 2012 to March 2021 in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere I agreed with others to commit wire fraud,” she said in court at the time. “I knew this was wrong.