“Jen Shah, a star of the Bravo reality television show “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was arrested and charged with conspiracy related to allegations of wire fraud and a telemarketing scheme, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
“In a statement announcing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, the Justice Department alleged that Shah, 47, of Park City, Utah, and her “first assistant,” Stuart Smith, 43, of Lehi, Utah, “generated and sold ‘lead lists’ of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam.”
“In the indictment unsealed Tuesday, the Department of Justice alleges that between 2012 and 2021, Shah and Stuart conspired to defraud older and computer illiterate people by operating a multi-state telemarketing and in-person sales teams that would sell “essentially non-existent” services and fight consumer efforts to obtain refunds.”
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