The happy couple.
Posted on 01/25/2009 12:11:37 PM PST by AuntB
ATLANTA – Malika Garrett, 43, and her husband, Russell Garrett, 43, a former Forsyth County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff, both of Woodstock, Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of harboring and exploiting their illegal alien nanny.
Malika Garrett and Russell Garrett both pleaded guilty to one count of harboring an alien for private financial gain, and Malika Garrett pleaded guilty to an additional count of making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said of the case, “Harboring illegal immigrant domestic workers and causing them to work for little or no money is a crime of greed that deprives the workers of their civil rights and often, as in this case, their freedom. Coercing such victims with threats of jail and deportation, and lying to federal agents, is also an abuse of the legal system. Regardless of their citizenship or immigration status, crime victims can bring their cases to federal officials without fear of reprisal. In fact, such victims may be eligible for special visas that allow them to remain in the United States and vindicate their civil rights.”
“These defendants took advantage of their nanny's undocumented immigration status for their own financial gain,” said Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights, at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. “They exploited her by not paying her and preying upon her fears of deportation.”
According to United States Attorney Nahmias and the information presented in court: Beginning in February 2003 and continuing through June 2005, Malika and Russell Garrett, knowing that the victim, a female Indian national, had entered the United States under false pretenses, thereafter harbored her from detection, and attempted to do so, all for the purpose of their own private financial gain. At their plea hearing, the Garretts admitted that they caused the victim to work as a nanny, for which the victim was initially underpaid, and then later not paid at all. The Garretts acknowledged that they told the victim that, if she left their home, she would be deported and jailed for an extended period of time – a condition that the defendants understood would cause great shame to the victim, a Muslim woman. Ultimately the woman was able to escape from the Garrett’s home with the assistance of a neighbor. At that point Malika Garrett threatened to, and did, both malign the victim to her family, and submit false allegations concerning the victim to Department of Homeland Security officials. Malika Garrett also admitted that she lied, when questioned by special agents of the FBI and ICE, by denying that the defendants ever employed the victim as a nanny. Relating to the case, Russell Garrett was relieved by his department of his duties as a deputy on July 24, 2008.
Sentencing for Defendants Malika and Russell Garrett is scheduled for April 22, 2009, at 3 p.m., before Judge Evans. Malika Garrett faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison on the alien harboring and false statement charges. Russell Garrett faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on the alien harboring charge. In determining the actual sentence, the Court will consider the United States Sentencing Guidelines that, while not binding on the Court, provide an advisory and appropriate sentencing range for most offenders.
This case is being investigated by Special Agents of the FBI and ICE.
Wonder who these two voted for.
Yep! Profiting from it....
Or, married/related to it, friend to it, or, are it ;)
I’ve yet to meet ANYONE, when pressed hard enough, have any other reason.
Don’t you mean three?
The happy couple.
“Wonder who these two voted for.”
Well, they were pretty safe betting on McCain or Obama weren’t they?
Remember last week ...Jeff Flake wants to deport aliens after 3 drunk driving convictions....
Illegal immigrant deported three times is convicted in 2006 fatal hit-run in McHenry County
Tribune staff report
January 23, 2009
An illegal immigrant deported three times to his native Mexico since 1995 was found guilty Thursday of reckless homicide and other charges in a hit-and-run crash that killed a motorcyclist, authorities said.[snip]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-deport-dui-blotter-23jan23,0,3625465.story
Every employer of an illegal alien is exploiting the employee's illegal status for financial gain. That's the only reason to employ them.
And some have a nanny locked up somewheres in the house.
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