Posted on 05/17/2008 8:27:53 AM PDT by khnyny
DETROIT - A former federal agent who pleaded guilty to faking a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship and improperly searching FBI databases was sentenced Tuesday to pay $975 in fines and other fees, but will serve no prison time.
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn said Nada Nadim Prouty, 38, "erred in judgment" 19 years ago when she lied to enter the U.S. in 1989 from her native Lebanon, but has provided "exemplary service to the country" as a federal agent.
Cohn also signed an order revoking Prouty's citizenship, but Prouty's attorney Thomas Cranmer said after the hearing she will not be deported.
Government officials have said they would not deport her because of her knowledge about matters of national security. U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Gina Balaya said Tuesday her Immigration status was "in limbo."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Apparently, Bush never had any intention of getting rid of any of the Clinton hanger ons.
Not to worry. I noticed it because I graduated HS in 1978 and I know my 30 year reunion is this year.
JIHAD WATCH.org (NY POST.com): "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FBI/CIA AGENT MARRIED TO STATE DEPT EMPLYEE WHO HELD SENSITIVE POSTS IN MIDDLE EAST EMBASSIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nada Nadim Prouty Update: Not only is she an illegal immigrant who was hired by the CIA and the FBI. Not only was she then given access to Al-Qaeda detainees in Iraq. Not only is she now accused of passing information to Hizballah. Not only is her brother-in-law now on the lam after being indicted for funneling money from his restaurant chain to Hizballah. Not only did that restaurant chain sponsor the Arab American Institute conference that was addressed by (on video) Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, (and in person) Richardson, Kucinich, and Ron Paul. Not only all that, but also, she is married to a State Department wonk who has held key positions in Middle Eastern embassies.") (November 18, 2007)
JIHAD WATCH.org (NY DAILY NEWS.com): "BUSTED ILLEGAL ALIEN WAS GREAT SPY, SAY SOURCES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "She was so good that some in the agency want to hire Prouty back one day, the source said. Officials again yesterday insisted Prouty is not suspected of espionage or of being a mole for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. "There is no indication at this point that she was engaged in espionage" for Hezbollah while at the CIA, said a senior U.S. official familiar with the case. In fact, the CIA fears she'll be assassinated for her U.S. spy work if she's ever deported to Beirut, two sources said. Other knowledgeable sources are convinced otherwise. Her brother-in-law is a fugitive Hezbollah fund-raiser who helped her lie to win U.S. citizenship seven years before she joined the FBI in 1999.") (November 17, 2007)
US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: Detroit: "FORMER EMPLOYEE OF CIA AND FBI PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY, UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS AND NATURALIZATION FRAUD" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.") (November 13, 2007)
Hmm... Hizballah sleeper agent, deep cover, penetrated FBI and CIA -- why have the trial in Detroit?
Easier to assemble a "jury of her peers" in the Detroit area? [rimshot!] :)
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