Hotel owner sentenced for employing illegal aliens
May 11, 2009 5:45 PM ET


MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The owner of 2 Brattleboro hotels has been sentenced to four months in prison for making false statements to obtain a bank loan and employing illegal aliens.

Prosecutors say 39-year-old Gurdeep Nagra, a Canadian citizen, also must serve three years on supervised release, including four months of home confinement.

Nagra was indicted on Oct. 18, 2007 on charges of harboring and employing illegal aliens atthe Quality Inn and Hampton Inn in Brattleboro and lying to authorities to gain his own authorization to live in the United States.

He pleaded not guilty to those charges.

A year later he pleaded guilty to making false statements to obtain a bank loan and employing illegal aliens.

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