Posted on 10/04/2014 4:52:52 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
VIDEO: Former N.Y. State Assemblywoman Gabriela Rosa sentenced to year behind bars — hid income, had sham marriage to stay in U.S.
Rosa, the first Dominican-born woman elected to the Assembly, was sentenced Friday for immigration and bankruptcy fraud.
The first Dominican-born woman elected to the New York State Assembly was sentenced Friday to a year and a day behind bars for immigration and bankruptcy fraud.
Gabriela Rosa, 47, wept on a friend's shoulder as she left Manhattan Federal Court surrounded by supporters chanting, “Gabriela Rosa! Viva Nacional!”
U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote, who locked reporters out of the courtroom after Rosa's supporters took every available seat, could have given Rosa, a first offender, no jail time.
Instead, she told her to report to federal prison Nov. 14 and tacked on three years' probation.
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Si Se Puede! Yes we can! It can be done! Illegals can sneak into the country and weasel their way into US politics thanks to liberals. Un-freakin-real. Yes and she “makes history”. Yes history I would say by being the first illegal actually held accountable in that sewer posing as a city. Just blows my mind that she isn’t getting deported.
Stole $79,500 of taxpayer cash being that Assembly a-holes do absolute squat in that city.
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