“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Monica Garcia claims Jen Shah informed her of her telemarketing scheme before the former cast member’s arrest in March 2021.
Garcia alleged during an interview Tuesday that Shah had confided in her about the nationwide scam, which primarily targeted the elderly, when she was working as the ex-Bravolebrity’s assistant.
“How did you find out what she was doing, like, for real?” Andy Cohen asked Garcia on “Watch What Happens Live.”
“For real, she honestly told me,” she replied.
Cohen, 55, then asked for details on the conversation and whether Shah, 50, had actually told Garcia, 40, she was “ripping off elderly people.”
“She told me how her scheme works, and she asked me to be a part of it,” she claimed. “I said, ‘Absolutely not,’ and that’s when I reached out to my friend in the Secret Service.”
During the “RHOSLC” Season 4 premiere in September, Garcia revealed she had been a witness in Shah’s fraud case after finding out about the scheme and calling someone in the Secret Service who advised her to stay away from the former “Housewife.”
“We never actually got to talk after that because then I was a witness in her federal trial, and those two can’t mix,” Garcia told Cohen.
She also emphasized that she “wasn’t the one that opened a case against” Shah because it was already “open for like 10 years.”
While Garcia clarified that she has not spoken to Shah in years, she claimed to have heard that the convict and her family are “furious” that she snagged a snowflake on “RHOSLC.”
“I hope you heal what is very broken inside,” Garcia said while staring into the camera when asked whether she has a “message” for her former employer.
Shah is currently behind bars serving out her five-and-a-half-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, after pleading guilty to defrauding thousands of people out of money in July 2022.
She since has been photographed in the penitentiary, become “friends” with fellow fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, celebrated her 50th birthday, completed an anger management course and even created a “Real Housewives” play with fellow inmates.
