Hey, everyone. Welcome to Pink Shade. I'm here with our long lost baby angel, Brandon Alvarado.

Brandon, it is so good to hear your voice today. We were just chatting a little bit before we

started recording and we are ready to talk Housewives, State of the Union. Correct?

It is. Yes, it is so good to be back. Thank you so so so much for having me back on because

by the way, what a week to record again. I can't believe all this news. I'm still in shock.

We're still in shock and because we're talking right out of the gate, you guys, we're not even

going to do a bunch of announcements at the beginning. Thank you to the Patreon people, thank you

to everyone who subscribed here and listening and sharing and reading them and reviewing. Okay,

let's talk Housewives. Here we go. Jen Shaw was arrested with her assistant this past week on

Tuesday, actually. And this is Jen Shaw from the Shaw Amazing Shale that she's apparently renting

from the real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Okay, she hears what I'm going to read. I'm

going to just read the blurb and then we're going to discuss. Okay. Okay. All right. Here's what

happened. The Justice Department in a statement announcing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud

and money laundering alleges that Shaw 47 and her quote first assistant Stuart Smith 43 conspired

to defraud older and computer illiterate people by operating multi-state telemarketing and in-person

sales teams that would sell essentially non-existent services and fight consumer efforts to obtain

refunds. The alleged scam began in 2012 and continued until 2021 according to the Justice Department.

All of this has been unsealed at this point, FYI. Shaw and Smith undertook, this is a quote,

Shaw and Smith undertook significant efforts to conceal their roles in the business opportunity

scheme. For example, Shaw and Smith, among other things, incorporated their businesses,

their business entities using third parties names, like JXA fashion, Shaw beauty,

Shaw last lashes, all bullshit companies, just basically shell companies. So now it's been

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