Jen Shah‘s jail launch date has seemingly been moved up from 2029 to 2028, chopping a 12 months off of her sentence.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate database lists the Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star’s launch date as August 30, 2028. That reduces her 78-month sentence to 66 months. Us Weekly has reached out to her legal professional for remark.
Shah, 49, requested to serve her sentence at Federal Jail Camp, Bryan (FPC Bryan) in Texas and surrendered herself on February 17.
The Bravo star was arrested in March 2021 — in the course of the manufacturing of season 2 of RHOSLC — and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering. She maintained her innocence till July 2022 when she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She was sentenced in January 2023 to 6 and a half years behind bars.
Along with her incarceration, her sentence — which additionally consists of 5 years of supervised launch — requires Shah to pay $6,645,251 in restitution and forfeit $6,500,000, 30 luxurious objects and 78 counterfeit luxurious objects.
“With in the present day’s sentence, Jennifer Shah lastly faces the implications of the numerous years she spent focusing on susceptible, aged victims,” U.S. Lawyer Damian Williams mentioned in a January press launch. “These people had been lured in by false guarantees of monetary safety, however in actuality, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their financial savings and left them with nothing to indicate for it. This conviction and sentence display as soon as once more that we are going to proceed to vigorously shield victims of monetary fraud and maintain accountable those that interact in fraudulent schemes.”
Sooner or later earlier than her give up, Shah recorded a video interview through which she shared how emotional she felt previous to coming into FPC Bryan.
“There’s so many feelings that I’m feeling proper at this second and on the brink of give up is emotional,” Shah mentioned on the time. “You realize I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I wasn’t nervous and scared. As a result of to be away from my household, that’s what I worry essentially the most is that transition of not with the ability to hug and kiss my boys and my husband every single day and my mother and however on the identical time, all of these feelings I additionally really feel hopeful and am motivated to do job, , and take advantage of my time away.”
Since reporting to jail, Shah has been maintaining the world up to date on her time within the huge home via her on-line diary. She recounted reporting to the federal facility with husband Sharrieff Shah, who she married in August 1994, and son Omar, 19, by her aspect. (Jen and Sharrieff additionally share son Sharrieff Jr., 29.)
“I hold pondering that is insane, utterly ridiculous. Why am I right here? I imply, I do know why I’m right here, however this simply looks like somebody like me doesn’t belong right here. I’ve by no means been in hassle earlier than,” she wrote earlier this month. “Then I immediately cease myself from happening this self-destructive path of pondering. I’m right here due to my unhealthy choices. I’m right here as a result of I did this to myself and there’s no one accountable however me.”