Topline
“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah was released from a federal prison on Wednesday to serve the rest of her sentence at home or in a halfway house, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed, after serving over two years of her more than six-year sentence for fraud charges.
The former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star will serve the remainder of her sentence either in home confinement or at a halfway house, officials said.
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Key Facts
Shah was released early on Wednesday morning, People first reported, citing representatives for the reality television star.
Shah was transferred from FPC Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp, to community confinement, Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Emery Nelson told Forbes.
She will serve the remainder of her sentence either at home confinement or at a halfway house supervised by the Bureau, although her exact location was not disclosed for privacy purposes.
Shah’s current projected release date is scheduled for August 30, 2026, according to Bureau of Prisons records.
The “Real Housewives” star was originally sentenced to 78 months in prison for defrauding customers with a telemarketing scheme, which prosecutors said targeted “vulnerable, elderly victims” with repeated calls.
Shah was also ordered to surrender $6.5 million, 30 luxury items, 78 counterfeit luxury items, and pay $6.7 million in restitution to victims.
Key Background
Shah was one of the original cast members of “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” and her legal drama was partially depicted on the reality show. On the show’s second season, Shah even used the tagline “the only thing I’m guilty of is being Shah-mazing.” Shah was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, but the money laundering charges were dropped after she agreed to plead guilty in 2022. Prosecutors argued that Shah ran a telemarketing scheme that repeatedly targeted older, vulnerable people with “false promises of financial security,” only to continue taking their money until their bank accounts were emptied. Prosecutors also said Shah then sold her victims’ contact info as business leads. She was facing a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison, which was reduced to 14 after accepting the plea deal.