Mention It All - An Emergency #JENTENCING Dispatch

Episode Date: January 6, 2023

Dylan grabs the microphone for a crucial update on Jen Shah’s sentencing hearing, breaking down the terms of her sentence, and the bizarre last-minute arguments Jen and her attorney tried to make on Friday morning. Later, he reacts to Lisa Rinna’s decision (sort of) to leave RHOBH. Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it is an emergency. We have a gentencing. Jen Shah had her sentencing hearing this morning in New York, and, you know, we followed all the live updates. I was checking the updates from bed. I decided not to go to the courthouse, which I am perfectly fine with because I was able to post all my little Instagram stories and all my little tweets, you know, without getting reprimanded for having my phone in a courtroom or however that works. If you're listening to this, you have probably already seen the sentence, but here is what we are looking at. Today, Jen Shaw was sentenced to 78 months incarceration before you reach for your phone calculator.

that is six and a half years. She was also sentenced to a $6.5 million forfeiture. Again, she has probably stolen tens of millions of dollars from all of these victims, but $6.5 million is what we're looking at. And then after she is out of prison, she was sentenced to five years of supervised release because the judge wants to make sure she does not commit another crime. Wow.

So obviously, this is. 78 months is more than Jen was requesting. It's less than the government was suggesting, but it is in line with another recommendation that was made from some probation thing. I don't know. 78 months, six and a half years. It's a long time in prison. This is, you know, people wanted longer. I guess some people wanted shorter. Most people wanted longer. It is what it is. One thing that's important to note with federal sentences as this one is, you are required to serve at least 85% of the time that you're sentenced to. So this is not a, this is not the kind of situation where Jen is going to, you know, have good behavior and prison

overcrowding and is going to be out in 10 months or something. You know, she might not serve all 78 of those months, but she's not going to be out of prison anytime, not anytime soon. She was ordered to surrender to prison on February 17th, so she will be going home. She has a little over a month. You know, she can watch the reunion from the comfort of her own home. I'm sure that's going to be really lovely for her. But yeah, I mean, that is what it is. I thought it was really interesting following all of the tweets from inside the courtroom

at inner city press on Twitter, truly doing the Lord's work, bringing us direct quotes from all the arguments from Jen's attorney, from the prosecutor, from Jen herself. It was pretty wild to watch, or not, I wasn't there, so I wasn't watching, but to read what Jen's attorney, Priya Chowdhury, was saying, basically just spinning this narrative that Jen for the majority of the time that she was involved in this scheme really wasn't fully aware of the scope of what they were doing. She didn't know that it was all illegal. She really had her eyes open. last summer when she read, you know, victim statements. And that was what inspired her to plead guilty and, you know, making, there's a lot of talk of

the elders and making the elders proud and healing. And it's just like, girl, what planet do you think we're living on that we all will believe that Jen was, you know, some innocent boss who didn't know what was going on? You know, one thing that they tried to make the argument for was, well, you know, Jen was never talking to these victims. She was never directly involved. And Judge Stein, God love him, having none of it. He's like, yeah, the reason she didn't talk to the victims directly was because she was the one literally running the operation. Like, she was at the top of the pyramid. So, no, she wasn't speaking to the people below the bottom of the pyramid. But that doesn't mean that she didn't

realize what the pyramid was made out of. Like, it's fascinating to watch the mental gymnastics of somebody who has obviously seen this overwhelming evidence that the government had decided to plead guilty, you know, whether she pled guilty because she realized how bad she felt or because she realized she was going to lose her trial, you know, open to interpretation. I tend to think she knew she was going to lose her trial. But then six months after that, now we're at the sentencing hearing. All of the documents have been submitted. All of the, you know, claims have been made. And to still be selling this narrative that, well, I mean, she feels bad now. But at the time, you know, it wasn't, she was in denial. She, Jen said herself that she had mental health issues that were untreated,

that were causing her to get into this situation. It's like, who do you think you're fooling? Clearly not Judge Stein. You know, he, this whole time was really having none of it. They tried to say, you know, well, there were good parts of her operation. He's like, what was the good parts? When you were calling elderly people, when you were maxing out their credit cards, when you were selling them fake services, like those, what good parts?

of this fake business. You know, he was just having none of it. And Jen and her own little thing was crying and talking about, you know, the volunteer work that she's done for the LGBT community, which, you know, respectfully leave me out of it. I feel like she got what she deserved. And I know, I know a lot of people when they saw 78 months, the gut reaction is I thought it was going to be more. I feel like it should be more. Look at all this terrible stuff she did. She deserves to go away for a long time. And I get that instinct. I really do. But I think

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you know, there's obviously going to be some stuff coming out after. There's more documents to come out. I'm sure lots of people will have lots of opinions. But before I go today, I just want to say, hi, Lisa Rina. I hope you're doing well. Lisa announced on Thursday evening that she will not be returning to the real hostiles of Beverly Hills after eight seasons. She said that she was grateful for the opportunity and it's the longest job she's ever had in her career. career. And, you know, I appreciate that Bravo gave her the usual courtesy of letting her make it sound like it was a mutual decision. It said the, they said the decision was, they came to the decision at the end of last season when her contract was up and whatever. It is kind of funny.

After all of these years of housewives, that they still kind of sell us the same story. that it's like, well, you know, I took some time to think about it. And I've decided it's like, yeah, we all know they're going to start filming for the new season this month, which means that contracts are going out right about now. I would guess that within the next week or two, we're going to have a very clear picture of who is still on the cast. Your contract didn't get renewed, Mama. Like, that's just how it goes sometimes.

You know, I have mixed feelings about Renna's departure. as much as I was not feeling her this past season or maybe the past few seasons, I think there are always pros and cons when you lose a housewife that is iconic, that has been iconic, that has brought us so much. And like Lisa Rina or not, I don't think you can deny that over the past several seasons of this show, she has been a main driver of plot and of story. story. And so, you know, to me, whether or not you think it's someone's time to go, which I sort of do feel like it was her time to go, there's always going to be a bit of apprehension for

me that it's like, okay, I'm not sad that she won't be here anymore, but I really just want everything to work out. I want the show to be great. I want the cast to be fun. I want there to be drama. I want there to be good times. I maybe want there to be bad times, but I want the show to thrive. And I believe that the show can thrive without Lisa Rina, but I also, I know that there's some work that needs to be done. So, you know, Lisa, congrats on a good run. Best of luck. You know, maybe days of our lives will take you back. Or maybe, you know, maybe not. Maybe just dancing TikToks and posting pictures. of Amelia Gray for the rest of time. Mazel Tov.

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