December 28, 2007


Feds sentence woman who sold IDs to illegals

REGISTER STAFF

A woman from Mexico has been sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in federal prison for her role in a scheme to sell fake identification and other documents to illegal workers.

Celia Mendoza-Pizano, 59, was arrested in June in California, where investigators say she and others bought Social Secutiy numbers and birth certificates from drug users and sold them to Mexican immigrnats who used the documents to get jobs at U.S. companies that included the Swift meatpacking plant in Marshalltown.

Customers included illegals immigrants in Toledo and Cedar Rapids, prosecutors said.

Mendoza-Pizano will be deported at the conclusion off her prison term, according to federal judge Linda Reade, who also fined her $100.

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