“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah is requesting that charges related to her telemarketing scheme be dismissed.
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Shah and her defense lawyers have urged a New York federal judge to drop the charges, alleging that police officers coerced her into waiving her Miranda rights at the time of her arrest.
Shah was arrested on March 30th in Utah after receiving two phone calls from New York detective Christopher Bastos. She believed that the calls were about a man that she’d had an order of protection against. However, as Shah was en route to film for “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” Bastos called Shah and directed her to pull over. Once she did, he arrested her in connection to the elaborate telemarketing plot she operated with her assistant, Stuart Smith. Shah claimed when she asked whether she was going to jail, Bastos made her believe that she “might be in danger” and that the police were there to protect her. The 47-year-old said that Bastos knew her history with the man from the protection order. That individual has also been tied to the telemarketing scam.
Prosecutors claim Shah and Smith defrauded “vulnerable, often elderly, working-class people.” The two supposedly sold lists of possible victims were produced from telemarketing “sales floors” in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and other states. The sales floor owners worked with telemarketing operations in New Jersey and New York. The scam lured unsuspecting people into investing in an online “business opportunity.” They were later sold tax preparation or website design services, despite many of the targets not having computers.
They both pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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