Thread: Wife of Saudi Prince Faces 10 Years Imprisonment in US

This should happen to anyone who hires illegal aliens.

http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=5812

Jim Kouri
September 7, 2006
The wife of one of the Saudi royal family living in Winchester, MA, pled
guilty on Tuesday in federal court to charges of visa fraud and harboring of
illegal aliens relating to her employment of two domestic servants. She
faces 10 years in federal prison.

Hana Al Jader, age 40, of Winchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before
US District Judge Reginald J. Lindsay to two counts of visa fraud and two
counts of harboring illegal aliens for private financial gain in connection
with her employment of two women from Indonesia as domestic servants.

At today's plea hearing, the prosecutor told the court that Al Jader, who
has resided in Winchester and Arlington since the mid-1990's with her
invalid husband, Prince Mohamed Al Saud, brought the two Indonesian women to
the United States in 2003 to work as domestic servants. In order to obtain
visas for the women, she was required to submit to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi
Arabia a copy of a work contract guaranteeing that the women would be paid
$1,500 a month and would work no more than 8 hours daily.
However, when the women arrived in the United States, they were required to
work -- cooking, cleaning, serving meals, caring for the severely disabled
Prince, and serving at frequent parties -- routinely in excess of 8 hours
per day. Al Jader paid them only $300 a month, which, at their request, was
wired to their families in Indonesia.

In July 2003, Al Jader, through an attorney, filed applications with the
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services ("BCIS") for a six-month
extension of the visas for her domestic servants. In connection with the
extension application, she submitted another employment contract, which
again represented falsely that the servants were each being paid $1,500 per
month and working only eight hours per day.
Based on the false information provided in the contracts, the servants'
visas were extended; however, when those extensions expired, Al Jader failed
to apply for or obtain any additional extensions. Despite the fact that the
servants' legal status had expired, Al Jader continued to employ them for
the next 11 months at the same pay rate of $300 per month.

In exchange for Al Jader's plea of guilty to these charges, her agreement to
pay restitution of approximately $98,000 to each of the servants, and her
acceptance of a stipulated order of deportation to her native Saudi Arabia,
the government agreed to dismiss pending charges of forced labor and
document servitude against her.

Judge Lindsay scheduled sentencing for December 12, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. Al
Jader faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison, to be followed by 3
years supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 on each of the four counts.

Why is she getting supervised release of three years when she has agreed to be deported back to her own country? My understanding is that you do the jail time and then you are deported. What gives?

In exchange for Al Jader's plea of guilty to these charges, her agreement to
pay restitution of approximately $98,000 to each of the servants, and her
acceptance of a stipulated order of deportation to her native Saudi Arabia,
the government agreed to dismiss pending charges of forced labor and
document servitude against her.

Judge Lindsay scheduled sentencing for December 12, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. Al
Jader faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison, to be followed by 3
years supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 on each of the four counts.

I re-read the same article on another blog...it appears as though if she accepts the stipulation she will be deported instead of sentencing. This is a travesty of justice(as usual) in the case of people with alot of cash. I also suspect that the "House of Saud" had a hand in swaying the Gov. (aka the Bush family ties to Saudi Arabia) to make this kind of deal.
Pathetic.

Rev. Dan