- Jen Shah’s federal fraud case drama finally came to an end.
- Jen Shah admitted to conspiring to commit wire fraud on July 11, 2022.
- Jen was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on January 6.
Jen Shah’s federal fraud case drama finally came to an end, and viewers received a behind-the-scenes look at the days leading up to Jen’s guilty plea in July 2022.
The episode opens up three months after Heather Gay’s Bad Mormon book cover reveal party has ended, as Jen and her husband Sharrieff Shah (also known as Coach) are traveling to New York City for her trial. Heather joined Jen in New York City to show their support, as did Meredith Marks, their co-star.
Seth Marks, Meredith’s husband, asks Meredith and Heather if they’ve ever questioned Jen about her guilt or innocence while the three of them are out to lunch. When your friend claims, “I am innocent of this,” and looks you in the eyes. You continue, “Then I will support you in whatever route you’re going to pursue,” Heather responds with assurance.
Despite Heather’s assurance that she would always have Jen’s back, everything changed after Jen altered her initial plea of not guilty to guilty. In the episode, there are images of Jen leaving a courthouse in New York City “Jen Shah admitted to conspiring to commit wire fraud on July 11, 2022. She was given a 6.5-year prison term.”
While eating lunch with her co-star Lisa Barlow at home in Utah, Heather confides that she is “overwhelmed with grief,” adding, “Grief that we are in this circumstance, that there are victims, that our buddy is going away for a decade and she has a 16-year-old.” Sharrieff Sr., 28, and Omar, 16, are Sharrieff and Jen’s two kids.
Lisa expresses her emotions about the issue by saying, “I didn’t want to believe that Jen was capable of doing any of it.”
Heather offers a notion as to why Jen decided to plead guilty rather than contest her charges after arguing that she was innocent for the entirety of the first season and much of season two.
“I think that Coach discovered what Jen was doing and that it was impossible to explain away,” she speculates to Lisa. “There was something that they could not get out of, and it was a smoking gun that said, ‘Okay, the gig is up. You have to walk in there, you have to say you did these things and you have to go to prison for a decade.'”
“I think she did it,” Heather continues as Lisa holds back tears. “I think she did it and I think she’s choking on the words and she doesn’t want to say it. It’s too big, and the penalties are too big.”
The cast, which includes Whitney Rose and pals of Angie Harrington, Angie Katsanevas, and Danna Bui-Negrete, may not have had time to respond to Jen’s prison term by the time the forthcoming season three reunion breaths of air. Jen was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on January 6.
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