Life continues to be troublesome for Jen Shah.
It’s not simply the troublesome each day grind of jail life that’s the concern right here. In reality, she’s already experiencing monetary points and lawyer questions despite the fact that she settled in at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas just some brief weeks in the past!
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According to a report revealed by the US Sun on Monday night, the feds are planning on requisitioning the 49-year-old star’s huge Bravo paychecks in an effort to pay again her victims! That outlet reported Shed Media — the manufacturing firm behind Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and different common Bravo actuality exhibits — has been requested by the feds to ship Jen’s present paychecks on to the Clerk of Court on this case.
Ouch!
She owes precisely $6,695,466 in restitution, per courtroom docs filed relating to her telemarketing rip-off case. And after Jen pled responsible to wire fraud final summer time — and was initially sentenced to 78 months in federal jail for it — the juice began working on getting these funds out to victims.
The information outlet reported on a newly-unearthed “Notice of Settlement Order” within the case. In that doc, Shed Media has been requested to start out paying Jen’s “disposable earnings” to the courtroom in order to make amends to these she harmed:
“Namely 25 percent of her disposable earnings from the sentencing date (January 10, 2023) through her surrender date (February 17, 2023). Shed Media, Inc. shall release to Shah 75 percent of earnings withheld between January 10 through February 17, 2023.”
The doc went on to state that Jen is to surrender “100% of each periodic payment” whereas in jail, after which the quantity will taper off as soon as she’s launched in a number of years:
“During Shah’s term of imprisonment (February 18, 2023 until the scheduled release date of August 30, 2028), Shed Media, Inc. shall pay 100% of each periodic payment due or owing to Shah to the Clerk of Court. Upon release from custody, when earnings or income may be required necessary and reasonable living expenses, Shed Media, Inc. shall pay 15% of gross monthly income or 25% of disposable earnings, whichever is greater.”
Interestingly, Shed Media wasn’t the one firm despatched a courtroom discover about paying restitution through Jen’s wages! According to Radar Online, NBC Universal Media, Warner Bros Entertainment, and even the celeb video website Cameo have been additionally “hit with legal notices by the government.” Basically, it sounds just like the feds are going after any and all locations the RHOSLC star makes cash in an effort to monitor down money for her victims. Makes sense…
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Per the US Sun, Jen has NOT “requested a hearing nor objected to any garnishee’s answer” on this demand. So it feels like she is accepting the truth that restitution is a actuality. Which is an effective factor, TBH. Do the crime, do the time, and so forth., and so forth.!
The courtroom docs went on:
“The victims of Shah’s crime have the right to full and timely restitution as provided in law, and the law provides that the United States may use all available and reasonable means to collect restitution.”
So there you will have it. Jen has beforehand talked a giant recreation about paying again those that have been damage by her wire fraud scheme. Now, it feels like she has the chance to make monetary amends whereas serving her time. Done deal, then, proper?
…Not fairly!
There’s only one extra little teeny-tiny downside left to cope with: Jen has reportedly stopped paying her lawyer!!! Attorney Priya Chaudhry, who has very publicly launched a number of statements on the RHOSLC star’s behalf within the final 12 months, has filed a “Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Defendant.”
That submitting, which was first despatched to courtroom late final Friday, learn partly:
“Chaudhry Law seeks to withdraw as counsel for Defendant because the client has failed to pay the fees and expenses owed to the Firm and has thus breached her contract with the Firm.”
Yikes!!
Not paying her lawyer?? Not good. It’s giving Donald Trump power!!
Naming each Jen and her husband, faculty soccer coach Sharrieff Shah Sr., the submitting claims vital lawyer charges “remain outstanding” at this level, and provides:
“The Firm has made several attempts to collect Defendant’s outstanding fees and expenses, including six times since July 2022. [Shah has] repeatedly promised to pay these outstanding amounts, and the Firm continued to provide services, relying on the written engagement with Defendant and the promises of her husband.”
Now, Chaudhry’s agency desires out. The legislation partnership has recorded their need with the courtroom to stroll away from Jen, calling their withdrawal request “satisfactory” as a result of unpaid payments.
Arguing the Bravo-lebrity has “deliberately disregarded her agreement” with the agency, the courtroom docs concluded:
“[The firm] has a right to assert a retaining lien against Defendant for her unpaid fees and expenses. Chaudhry Law PLLC respectfully requests this Court enter an order granting Chaudhry Law leave to withdraw as counsel of record for Defendant and such other and further relief this Court deems just and proper.”
A decide nonetheless has to make a ruling on that request, so nothing has been determined but. But it’s by no means a great signal when your lawyer is actively working to get taken off your case. Yeesh!!
What do U make of Jen’s ongoing main authorized and monetary controversies, y’all??
Hey, look on the intense facet, tho: at the least she’s set to get out of jail a 12 months sooner than she initially anticipated. Right?!
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