Before his life could change, Mr. Shah spend most of your time as a free woman in 2023. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star travels to California to support her husband, Coach Sharrieff Shahthe day before he was set to be sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The Bravo star, 49, took to Instagram Stories on Monday, January 2, to share two selfies from Pasadena. He was in the crowd to watch the University of Utah play Penn State in the Rose Bowl. Sharrieff, who has been married to Jen since 1994, is the Pac-12 school’s special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach.
Jen has days away from facing the judge on Friday, January 6, almost a year after he was arrested in connection with a telemarketing scheme that defrauded hundreds of victims, the majority of whom were older than 55 years. While the reality star and his assistant Stuart Smith pleaded not guilty at the time, they both changed their pleas.
“In 2012 through March 2021 in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, I conspired with others to commit wire fraud,” Jen said. Judge Sidney Stein in July 2022 when he pleaded guilty. “I know this is wrong. I know a lot of people were hurt and I apologize.”
While Jen’s plea agreement suggested a prison term of between 11 and 14 years, she asked the judge to sentence her to three years shorter. Sharrieff and his two sons, Sharrieff Jr., 28, and Omar, 19, also wrote him a letter last month.
“Jen has never been arrested or detained for any crime. My husband’s current legal predicament is caused by a confluence of events that came together at different points, which caused him to lose control,” the football coach wrote, stating that the tension in his marriage caused his wife “to make very bad business decisions. and develop relationships with bad people.”
Sharrieff Sr continued: “Because I was not there, I could not see how much my husband was suffering. When I think about it now, I see that he spends more time in his bedroom alone. He often falls asleep on his children’s beds waiting for me to come home. He continues -repeatedly told her that she felt alone.
The government responded to the request for leniency by recommending the judge sentence Jen up to 10 years in prison, saying that her “late expression of remorse rings hollow” as she previously maintained her innocence on RHOSLC and social media. Several victim impact statements were later released.
“You sound sympathetic and convincing, so I trust you,” one victim wrote. “I am an idiot. The court may have some form of punishment for the indecency you have committed, but even if you have done the appropriate punishment, whatever you do, our God and the heavenly creator of all things will be one, in the long run, to whoever you must really answer.”
Others described their mental health struggles after spending thousands of dollars on bogus tutoring courses.
“Your sanity is in doubt, your confidence is broken, your freedom, the limited amount of it, is under siege and you can’t trust anyone,” said the second victim. “You are not the same person before this experience. Whoever is this telemarketer, must stop stealing money and pay back what was stolen, and do some act of restitution, such as living as you are now, doing what you do with limited resources, and paying medical services, such as therapy or psychiatry. drugs.”
When season 3 of ROSLC is currently airing, Jen did not participate in the reunion taping last month.