Jen Shah Denies Scamming Elderly Despite Jail Time

, formerly of the , fiercely denied making a target out of the elderly .

The 52-year-old served a total of 33 months behind bars for her role in a long-running nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme.

Shah pled guilty . In addition to her prison time she was ordered to pay more than $6.5 million in restitution.

Among the victim statements were one by an older woman who became after losing $30,000 to Shah's scam, as well as by a woman in her 70s who lost a $40,000 sum that constituted half her life savings.

Shah was originally given 78 months in 2023, but her sentence was repeatedly

Now, in her new self-pitying interview, Shah said: 'I would like to clear up this false narrative that I targeted the elderly. I never, ever targeted the elderly,' via People.

'In the indictment, the government stated that if there are 10 customers over the age of 55, then it becomes elderly enhancement, which would add more time to my sentence. So that became the soundbite. "Jen Shah targeted the elderly. She stole from the elderly." And that's not true,' she went on.

Her argument was that although many victims of the fraud scheme were senior citizens, she did not deliberately set her sights on people of a certain age.