Thread: IA-Bosnian sentenced for lying to immigration

Bosnian sentenced for lying to immigration




October 23, 2009 5:34 PM ET

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge in Des Moines has sentenced a Bosnian immigrant to eight months in prison for lying to immigration officials about his arrest for the murder of a fellow soldier in the former Yugoslavia.

In passing sentence Friday, U.S. District Judge also ordered 35-year-old Rasim Causevic (COW'-say-vitch) to serve two years on supervised release, and noted that further immigration procedures are pending against Causevic.

Prosecutors at Causevic's trial in June said he lied to an immigration official while applying to be a permanent U.S. resident in February. They said he denied ever being arrested and swore he had never killed anyone during his military service. Interpol reported, though, that Causevic had been charged with another soldier's murder in 1995 and was convicted in absentia in 2001.

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp? ... nu115_2_9#

Amazing, they actually caught an immigrant in a LIE!