{"id":1549097,"date":"2022-07-11T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549097"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:50:25","slug":"real-housewives-star-pleads-guilty-to-wire-fraud-that-targeted-elderly-vulnerable-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/real-housewives-star-pleads-guilty-to-wire-fraud-that-targeted-elderly-vulnerable-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Real Housewives\u2019 Star Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud That \u2018Targeted Elderly, Vulnerable Victims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freal-housewives-star-pleads-guilty-to-wire-fraud-that-targeted-elderly-vulnerable-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/reality-tv\">Real Housewives of Salt Lake City<\/a>\u201d star Jennifer Shah just pleaded guilty to charges related to a nationwide telemarketing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\">scam<\/a>, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/real-housewives-salt-lake-city-star-jen-shah-pleads-guilty-wire-fraud-rcna37631\">reported<\/a>. She had initially submitted a plea of not guilty after charges were filed in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Shah agreed to forfeit $6.5 million and to pay restitution up to $9.5 million with this change. She\u2019s also facing a prison sentence of up to 14 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old television personality also admitted that she \u201cagreed with others to commit with wire fraud\u201d and \u201cknew it misled\u201d victims. Shah said the fraud included \u201cmisrepresentation of the product \u2026 regarding value of the service\u201d and concurred the goods \u201chad little to no value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The publication reported that at least ten of those individuals were over 55. \u201cWe used interstate telephones and emails. I knew many of the purchasers were over the age of 55. I am so sorry, \u201d Shah said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer Shah was a key participant in a nationwide scheme that targeted elderly, vulnerable victims,\u201d U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThese victims were sold false promises of financial security but instead Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it. This Office is committed to rooting out these schemes whatever form they take.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cReal Housewives,\u201d Shah showed off her extravagant lifestyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the show\u2019s executive producer Andy Cohen asked how she earned so much money during the first season reunion special, the reality star said, \u201cMy background is in direct response marketing for about 20 years, so our company does advertising. We have a platform that helps people acquire customers, so when you\u2019re shopping online or on the Internet, and something pops, we have the algorithm behind why you\u2019re getting served that ad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer Shah, who portrays herself as a wealthy and successful businessperson on \u2018reality\u2019 television, and Stuart Smith, who is portrayed as Shah\u2019s \u2018first assistant,\u2019 allegedly generated and sold \u2018lead lists\u2019 of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam,\u201d Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss previously said in a press release, per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city-jen-shah-pleads-guilty-fraud-money-laundering\/\">People<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn actual reality and as alleged, the so-called business opportunities pushed on the victims by Shah, Smith, and their co-conspirators were just fraudulent schemes, motivated by greed, to steal victims\u2019 money. Now, these defendants face time in prison for their alleged crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReal Housewives of Salt Lake City\u201d star Jennifer Shah just pleaded guilty to charges related to a nationwide telemarketing scam, NBC News reported. She had initially submitted a plea of not guilty after charges were filed in March 2021. Shah agreed to forfeit $6.5 million and to pay restitution up to $9.5 million with this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1549218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}