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02-08-2012, 01:20 PM #1
GA-Five aliens sentenced for bribing ICE agent
Five aliens sentenced for bribing ICE agent
Including father of suspect in Clayton deputy’s death
By Elaine Rackley
As of Tuesday, February 7, 2012
A McDonough man, along with four other people, were sentenced in federal court, Monday, for bribing an immigration official.
Pisa Phosai, 34, of McDonough, and others, tried to erase criminal histories and evade reporting requirements, according to federal officials. Phosai was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Julie E. Carnes to one year and a day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Illegal aliens paid a total of $18,500 to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Assistant to have their reporting requirements removed.
Recorded conversations between the assistant and the defendants indicated that the defendants believed that, by eliminating their reporting requirements, they would be able to stay in this country legally, and eventually to apply for U.S. citizenship, according to officials.
“Most immigrants carefully follow the law and take all the necessary legal steps to lawfully remain in the United States,” said United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates. “By contrast, these defendants chose the route of quick and dirty payoffs, so that they could stay here without any accountability. That is not the way the system works in the United States.”
Other immigrants sentenced on the bribery charges were: Rotana Khov, 34, of Atlanta; Savoeun Kroch, 31, of College Park; Voeum Lim, 27, of Charlotte, N.C., and Hing Bun, 43, of Riverdale.
Bun is the father of Jonathan Bun, the Riverdale teenager, who allegedly shot and killed Clayton County Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Daly in July.
Khov was sentenced to four years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Bun was sentenced to six months of home confinement, to be followed by four years and six months of probation.
Bun was taken into ICE custody immediately after the sentencing and is expected to remain in custody until his deportation to Cambodia. Lim was sentenced to eight months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Kroch was sentenced to one year and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Khov, Phosai, Bun and Lim pleaded guilty on Aug. 3, 2011, and Kroch pleaded guilty on Oct. 6, 2011.
Officials said the arrests and sentencing stem from two years ago, when Phosai approached an ICE Enforcement and Removal Assistant and offered to pay her $1,500 to cancel his immigration reporting requirement. The assistant immediately reported his offer to ICE Special Agents and other investigators, and the assistant then began to work in an undercover role.
Acting at the direction of the special agents, the assistant agreed to alter Phosai’s reporting requirement in exchange for money. Phosai was not able to raise the money, but he introduced her to Rotana Khov, who he said was willing to pay to have his reporting requirement eliminated. Khov paid the assistant $1,500 in early September 2010, according to officials.
#Khov subsequently introduced other aliens to the assistant, including defendants Bun and Lim. In late September 2010, Bun paid $4,000 to have his immigration reporting requirements canceled. In October 2010, Lim paid $3,000 to the assistant, according to officials.
ICE instructed defendant Kroch to report for deportation in September 2010, but Kroch, acting at Khov’s direction, did not report as instructed. Kroch paid $7,000 to the assistant in January 2011.
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02-08-2012, 10:56 PM #2
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