Jennifer Shah of 'The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' was sentenced Friday for defrauding thousands of people, many of them vulnerable or older, in a telemarketing scam that stretched nearly a decade.
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Stein said that person was “simply a character. It’s acting.” And he added that the housewives program “involves role playing. … It’s a heavily scripted operation.”Article contentHis words were echoed by Shah, who told the judge: “Reality TV has nothing to do with reality.” “For years I blamed other people for putting me in this position,” believing she was duped and manipulated, she said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman said Shah was a leader of a “clear and brazen fraud” that stretched from 2012 to March 2021 as bogus services were promoted as enabling people to make substantial amounts of money through online businesses. He called her the most culpable among more than 30 defendants.
They said she also rented an apartment in midtown Manhattan, leased a Porsche Panamera, bought hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of luxury goods and funded various cosmetic procedures while cheating the Internal Revenue Service of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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