The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah will likely face 10 rather than the maximum 14 years in prison when she gets formally sentenced to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on January 6.In a lengthy Justice Department court filing on Saturday, federal prosecutors asked the judge to sentence the disgraced 49-year-old to a decade behind bars for organizing a $5M telemarketing scam that targeted thousands of elderly nationwide.Jen pled guilty to the crime in July, along with her estranged 'first' assistant Stuart Smith, in which they falsely promised to give victims the tools to start their own e-commerce companies from 2012-2021.
Legal woes: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah will likely face 10 rather than the maximum 14 years in prison when she gets formally sentenced to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on January 6 (pictured December 7)Prosecutors point to the fact that Shah - whose tagline was 'The only thing I'm guilty of is being Shah-mazing' - first attempted to 'conceal her role in the scheme' while trying 'to profit off the charges by selling "Justice for Jen' merchandise."''At the defendant's direction, victims were defrauded over and over again until they had nothing left,' US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams wrote in the filing - according to NBC News.'She and her co-conspirators persisted in their conduct until the victims' bank accounts were empty, their credit cards were at their limits, and there was nothing more to take.' 'The most culpable person charged in this case': In a lengthy Justice Department court filing on Saturday, federal prosecutors asked the judge to sentence the disgraced 49-year-old to a decade behind bars.
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