Jen Shah

The record

Compiled by the MrScandal desk from the documents below · Desk editor Kristaps Siliņš · Nov 10, 2026

Jen Shah is no longer in federal custody. The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator lists her, inmate 37357-509, as released on August 28, 2026, with her last listing under the bureau's Phoenix residential reentry office. She had reported to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas on February 17, 2023 to serve a 78-month sentence, and left the camp on December 10, 2025 for community confinement after her release date was moved up. Five years of supervised release now follow, and one of its conditions is that she pay restitution in monthly installments of 15 percent of her gross income.

She was arrested on March 30, 2021, while Bravo's The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City was filming its second season, on a superseding indictment in Manhattan federal court. It charged her and her assistant Stuart Smith with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors said that from 2012 they sold lists of potential victims, many over 55, to sales floors that sold them so-called business services for online businesses. She pleaded not guilty, then on July 11, 2022 pleaded guilty to the wire fraud conspiracy count; the other open counts were dismissed at sentencing.

Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced her on January 6, 2023 to 78 months in prison, below an advisory guidelines range of 135 to 168 months. Prosecutors had asked for 120 months, the Probation Office had recommended 72 and her lawyers 36. She was ordered to forfeit $6.5 million, 30 luxury items and 78 counterfeit luxury items. The judgment and the consent restitution order set restitution at $6,646,251, owed jointly and severally with Smith; the Justice Department's announcement gives the figure as $6,645,251.

The government began collecting before she reported to prison. In April 2023 the court ordered Shed Media, which held earnings due to her, to pay part of them to the court, and in May 2023 extended the order to all of her earnings due while she was imprisoned. Writs served on Warner Bros. Entertainment and NBCUniversal turned up nothing owed to her, and her Cameo wallet was empty. The May 2023 order put the unpaid balance owed with co-defendants at $6,746,378. In April 2026 she said she had made paying victims back her mission.

Roles and honours on the record

• 2020 Original cast member, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (Bravo) source
• 2021-2023 Defendant, United States v. Shah, S4 19 Cr. 833 (SHS), Southern District of New York; pleaded guilty to Count One source
• 2023-2026 Federal prisoner 37357-509; released August 28, 2026 source
• as of 2026 On five years of supervised release, with restitution installments of 15 percent of gross income source