Jen Shah is a free lady not.

The previous Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star reported to a federal jail in Texas right this moment to start serving her 6 and 1/2 12 months sentence.

Again in July of 2022, Shah pled responsible to 1 rely of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Prosecutors say the 49-year-old masterminded a telemarketing scheme designed to defraud the aged and bilk them out of their financial savings.

In her tearful responsible plea, Jen insisted that she acted out of ignorance and did perceive the affect of her actions.

Shah blamed her crimes on psychological sickness, telling the court docket, “With the correct medicine I can now see what occurred.”

Prosecutors weren’t shopping for it and requested the decide to lock her up for a decade.

Shah’s husband wrote to the decide and begged for a lenient sentence (she might have been locked up for as much as 30 years, in response to federal pointers), and it appears to be like like his phrases might have carried some critical weight.

Six and a half years is not any drop within the bucket, but it surely might have been so much worse.

And hey, Jen would possibly quickly have some well-known firm, as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is ready to start her 11-year sentence on the similar jail in April!

Future besties, maybe?

“Jen Shah’s resolve to make her victims entire and to show her life round is unyielding,” mentioned Shah’s lawyer Priya Chaudhry in an announcement issued on Thursday.

“She is dedicated to serving her sentence with braveness and goal, fueled by her want to make amends for the harm she has induced and to assist others in her new neighborhood,” the assertion continued.

“No impediment will deter Jen from benefiting from her time in jail and she or he’s decided to make restitution to these whose lives she has impacted,” Chaudhry added.

“Her path forward will probably be stuffed with challenges, however with the unwavering love and assist of her household and pals, Jen is ready to face these challenges head-on and emerge from this expertise a greater one that makes a optimistic affect on others.”

Solely time will inform about that final half, clearly.

However no matter what kind of affect jail has on her, Shah received’t be capable of return her previous methods proper off the bat.

She’ll must bear 5 years of supervised, launch, together with necessary psychological well being counseling.

So yeah, whereas she might not have acquired the 10-year sentence prosecutors had in thoughts, Jen will probably be effectively into her sixties earlier than she’s utterly out from underneath the federal government’s thumb.

If Bravo nonetheless exists at that time, we’re certain Andy Cohen will probably be completely happy to welcome her again to the Housewives franchise.

She’ll have fairly a story to inform.