Jen Shah’s Prison Sentence Was Reduced By 1 Year

Jen Shah‘s jail launch date has seemingly been moved up from 2029 to 2028, slicing a 12 months off of her sentence.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate database lists the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s launch date as August 30, 2028. That reduces her 78-month sentence to 66 months. Us Weekly has reached out to her lawyer for remark.

Shah, 49, requested to serve her sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Bryan (FPC Bryan) in Texas and surrendered herself on February 17.

The Bravo star was arrested in March 2021 — through 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 responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She was sentenced in January 2023 to 6 and a half years behind bars.

In addition to 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 today’s sentence, Jennifer Shah finally faces the consequences of the many years she spent targeting vulnerable, elderly victims,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams stated in a January press launch. “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.”

One day earlier than her give up, Shah recorded a video interview by which she shared how emotional she felt previous to getting into FPC Bryan.

“There’s so many emotions that I’m feeling right at this moment and getting ready to surrender is emotional,” Shah stated on the time. “You know I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous and scared. Because to be away from my family, that’s what I fear the most is you know that transition of not being able to hug and kiss my boys and my husband every day and my mom and but at the same time, all of those emotions I also feel hopeful and am motivated to do a good job, you know, and make the most of my time away.”

Since reporting to jail, Shah has been protecting the world up to date on her time within the massive home by means of 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 facet. (Jen and Sharrieff additionally share son Sharrieff Jr., 29.)

“I keep thinking this is insane, completely ridiculous. Why am I here? I mean, I know why I’m here, but this just feels like someone like me doesn’t belong here. I’ve never been in trouble before,” she wrote earlier this month. “Then I instantly stop myself from going down this self-destructive path of thinking. I am here because of my bad decisions. I am here because I did this to myself and there is no one to blame but me.”