21-month sentence in immigrant harboring plot

June 18, 2009



Contextual linking provided by Topix Federal prosecutors say a Rincon man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiracy to harbor and employ illegal immigrants.

U.S. Attorney Edmund A. Booth Jr. of Savannah said Wednesday that Guo Hua Jiang pled guilty May 22 and agreed to pay $75,000 in lieu of forfeiting two residences where the immigrants were housed.

Jiang's co-defendant, who pled guilty to a charge of employing unauthorized aliens, has not been sentenced. Booth said both have outstanding orders for deportation against them.


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