defrauding thousands of people<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including the elderly and vulnerable \u2014\u00a0via a nationwide telemarketing\u00a0scheme in 2022.<\/p>\nHowever, the former Bravo star, 52, claimed she \u201cdisregarded red flags\u201d when getting into a business she initially thought was legit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a long and a very complex journey that brought me to this point. And without re-litigating it, I became involved in the case because I made horrible business decisions and I disregarded huge red flags,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI allowed the lines to be blurred between personal friendships and ethical business practices. And in essence, I trusted the wrong people at a very vulnerable time in my life,\u201d Shah added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was doing the right thing for the majority of the time. I was working under people who were running these companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story is being updated\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jen Shah took full responsibility for her crimes nearly four months after she was released from prison following a fraud conviction. \u201cI was wrong. I made wrong decisions. I should have done things differently,\u201d she told People in her first post-prison interview. \u201cI should have been more diligent. And I\u2019m deeply remorseful and sorry for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[344976,24003,30818,378745,386565,23662,439036,24758,21913],"class_list":["post-2354130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-fraud","tag-jen-shah","tag-prison","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city","tag-reality-stars","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RHOSLC-star-Jen-Shah-breaks-silence-after-prison-release-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354130\/revisions\/2354132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}