‘Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City’ Star Jen Shah Begs Court To Dismiss Wire Fraud Charges, Claims She Was Coerced Into Making Statements To Police
June 14 2021, Published 7:23 p.m. ET
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah says she was coerced into making statements to police and wants her fraud charges dismissed immediately.
According to court documents obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, Shah’s attorney says the indictment filed against Shah is a “bare-bones wire fraud and conspiracy theory that does not adequately allege either the required elements of intent to defraud.”
Further, they say prosecutors appear “to rely on a false promise theory involving specific returns on purchasers’ investments, which could be mere breaches of contract, or, in theory, deceptive sales practice violations that fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)."
Shah says the government has failed to provide more detail of her alleged crimes. Instead, her lawyers say they have been handed over 1.3 million documents as evidence from prosecutors that they are expected to review.
Her attorney says, “This information cannot be adequately reviewed in a lifetime, and requires, as we argue below, that the government particularize the charges in a way that this relatively bare-bones superseding indictment does not.