Ex-US immigration official sentenced to prison





March 9, 2009 6:23 PM ET

DETROIT (AP) - A former senior immigration official has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for favors that included the release of illegal immigrants from detention.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Roy Bailey to 37 months in prison and fined him $30,000.

Prosecutors say the 55-year-old Romulus man accepted money and gifts in exchange for releasing immigrants awaiting deportation while working as an acting director in the Detroit office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He had also pleaded guilty to helping people gain immigration benefits through false marriages to U.S. citizens.


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