“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah is a free woman after serving 33 months in a federal Texas prison for a telemarketing scam that targeted elderly victims.
The 52-year-old Bravolebrity, who began serving time in February 2023, is no longer an inmate at Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, Shah’s rep as well and a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed to People.
Shah has been transferred “to community confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Phoenix Residential Reentry Management (RRM) Office,” meaning she “is in either home confinement or a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, or halfway house),” per BOP. “For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not disclose an individual’s specific location while in community confinement.”
Shah’s release comes after multiple reductions in her sentence and nearly five years after her legal woes began with her 2021 arrest. She and her assistant, Stuart Smith, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing — a charge to which Shah pleaded guilty in July 2022, days before her trial was to star. She had also been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, a charge that was dropped as part of her plea deal.
Though Shah was sentenced to 6.5 years, news broke late last month that Shah would walk free before Christmas, which manager Chris Giovanni told People was “a gift she doesn’t take for granted.”
At the time, he said that the reality star was “genuinely not the same woman as she was before.
“She understands the seriousness of the mistakes she made and is excited to put this chapter behind her so that she can show everyone the woman she’s worked hard to become,” said Giovanni just before Thanksgiving.
The Daily News has reached out to Giovanni for comment.
