Cults & Cons: Jen Shah, the Hustle That Didn’t Hustle Back

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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast her as a larger-than-life personality with an enormous entourage, designer everything, and a lifestyle that demanded constant explanation. What Jen Shah didn't explain, until federal agents showed up at a cast event, was that her business empire was built on a telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted thousands of vulnerable people across the country, many of them elderly. She pled guilty in 2022 and was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison. In today's first episode of Cults & Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien look at the mechanics of the scheme, the victims it left behind, and what the cameras captured that nobody thought to…