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Whitney Rose36, was as stunned as anybody when her Real Housewives of Salt Lake City co-star Jen Shah49, pleaded responsible to wire fraud prices in a telemarketing scheme in July 2022. “At one point in time, I was like maybe she really did get screwed over, and people did this and turned on her,” Whitney instructed Hollywood Life EXCLUSIVELY on the most recent episode of the Pay Attention Puh-Lease! podcast. “She screamed innocence so loudly. And if we even tried to speak to her about it, she would get so mad and shut us down,” Whitney added.
In March 2021, Jen was infamously arrested and charged with fraud, for allegedly defrauding a whole bunch of principally senior residents out of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. The cameras had been rolling on season 2 on the time and Jen — who initially pleaded not responsible — insisted to Whitney, and the remainder of their co-stars, that she was harmless. Jen has continued to take care of her innocence in season 3, which was filmed earlier than she pleaded responsible.
Whitney instructed us that the RHOSLC The solid “didn’t have much information” about Jen’s monetary state of affairs earlier than her arrest. “The problem with that is we would hear things in the community. Salt Lake City is small,” the Wild Rose Beauty founder explained. “We would hear rumors and we would hear things.”
Whitney additionally defined how “frustrating” Jen’s responsible plea was for her. “I really feel like I went out of my method to assist her, regardless of how she handled me. Through all of this she and I constructed an precise friendship for the primary time this season,” Whitney told us. “So to have her sort of not inform anybody and simply go in and plead responsible was surprising.”
“I thought she’d fight it to the end, based on what she was telling me,” Whitney added about Jen. ,[She said] she’s harmless, she’s gonna combat it to the tip. But there was breadcrumbs all over the place and none of it ever made sense. And so now it is sensible.
Jen modified her not responsible plea to responsible on July 11, which might doubtlessly save her 16 years in jail. The reported deal will power her to return $9 million to the a whole bunch of victims she defrauded plus an extra $6 million. Jen is dealing with as much as 14 years behind bars, as she mentioned she would settle for her punishment so long as it’s 168 months or much less of jail time. Jen’s sentencing is scheduled for Dec 15,
