Did Jen Shah affirm husband Sharrieff “Coach” Shah‘s involvement within the aftermath of her telemarketing scheme in a leaked textual content message?
As the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City solid member prepares for her fraud sentencing in January after pleading responsible in July, a 2018 textual content message has been leaked wherein Jen is seen making an attempt to “coach” former assistant Stuart Smith, who finally pled responsible to the scheme final yr, by a deposition.
“Still think Coach Shah had no clue what Jen was up to?” podcaster Zack Peter requested in a December 29 tweet. “The Gov released text messages from Jen Shah to Stuart Smith before he had to testify…”
“I’m putting all the questions/answers in an excel doc and I’ll send it to you and you can practice it today,” one textual content learn.
“Sharrieff will help us on any questions we’re unsure of how to best answer or phrase it. I have a list to ask him about,” learn one other.
According to Zack, Jen was allegedly making an attempt to teach Stuart by a collection of lies to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which she hoped would get her off the hook for the fraud and cash laundering expenses she was going through.
“This is the context: Jen Shah was trying to hide her involvement in the scheme. She was coaching Stuart to LIE to the FTC. Coach Shah was acting as their legal aid, which means… He was aware,” Zack claimed, later clarifying that he was not implying guilt, however quite saying Sharrieff was “not naive.”
In an accompanying doc, it was famous that Jen “sent Smith lists of questions and answers he should ‘practice’ and instructed him to ‘save it on your laptop and delete the email,’ and gave him specific instructions on how to falsely answer certain questions … These lies were designed to hide the defendant’s role in the Business Opportunity Scheme.”
“The night before the defendant’s deposition, the defendant went to Smith’s hotel to discuss the deposition and ‘come up with an answer together’ for certain of the questions the defendant anticipated Smith would be asked. The day of the deposition, the defendant waited across the street and texted with Smith throughout the deposition,” the doc, filed on December 23, additionally said.
In a further message, which included the identical doc, Zack additional defined the state of affairs involving the Shahs.
“For people STILL confused about the Coach Shah texts [and] how they’re relevant, the Gov used them as supporting evidence to prove Jen Shah got Stu to LIE to the FTC in their investigation to conceal their involvement in the scheme,” he said.
Although the textual content appeared to verify that Sharrieff was concerned in Jen’s obvious efforts to clear her title, through Stuart, it stays unclear whether or not or not he had any data of the telemarketing scheme itself.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season three airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
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