{"id":2886,"date":"2014-05-06T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2014-05-06T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T19:42:10","slug":"couple-pleads-guilty-keeping-moroccan-woman-domestic-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Moroccan<\/a>
Moroccan Embassy Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u00a0 – \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for three years, federal officials announced today.<\/p>\n

Abdelkader<\/strong> and Hnia Amal,<\/strong> who are husband and wife, hid the woman identified in court records as F.H. in their home in Alexandria, Virginia from December 2007 to December 2010, officials said.<\/p>\n

Officials said F.H. served as a domestic servant within the home of the defendants. \u00a0Hnia Amal also had F.H. work for her commercial cleaning company, cleaning various residential and commercial properties.<\/p>\n

According to the statement of facts entered with Abdelkader Amal\u2019s plea agreement, Amal previously held an A-1 diplomatic visa as a military official in the Moroccan embassy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The Amals unlawfully brought F.H. into the United States on a visa they procured based on false representations that F.H. would be employed as a domestic servant for a different employer, authorities said.<\/p>\n

After the defendants unlawfully smuggled F.H. into the United States in December 2007, they did not pay her a salary.<\/p>\n

Instead, the defendants made two down payments towards an apartment in Morocco on F.H.\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

The two payments, made in October 2010 and January 2011, were roughly equivalent to $8,500, and represented only about a quarter of the total apartment cost, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Moreover, officials allege that while Hnia Amal\u2019s cleaning company received money for the work that F.H. performed, F.H. did not receive any pay for her work on behalf of Hnia Amal\u2019s cleaning company.<\/p>\n

After Amal retired as a military official in the Moroccan embassy \u00a0in 2003 as the defense supply attach\u00e9, he was no longer eligible to sponsor individuals for domestic employment under an A-3 visa, officials said.<\/p>\n

The defendants face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 when they are sentenced in July, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u00a0 – \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for three years, federal officials…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[464,463,462],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courts","category-home-main-slider","tag-domestic-servant","tag-embassy","tag-morocco"],"yoast_head":"\nCouple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Justice Notebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"987\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"717\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Raul\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\"},\"headline\":\"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886\"},\"wordCount\":345,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Domestic Servant\",\"Embassy\",\"Morocco\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Courts\",\"Home Main Slider\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886\",\"name\":\"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00\",\"description\":\"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=2886#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg\",\"width\":987,\"height\":717,\"caption\":\"Moroccan Embassy Washington D.C.\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"American Justice Notebook\",\"description\":\""Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." \u2014 Thomas Jefferson\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"American Justice Notebook\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/Justice-Scales.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/Justice-Scales.jpg\",\"width\":675,\"height\":231,\"caption\":\"American Justice Notebook\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\",\"name\":\"Raul\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Raul\"},\"description\":\"Raul Hernandez is a former journalist. He has worked as a newspaper reporter for more than 30 years at the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso Times, Press Enterprise in Riverside, California and the Ventura County Star in California. He was a court reporter for more than 20 years.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant","description":"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant","og_description":"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for","og_url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886","og_site_name":"American Justice Notebook","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook","article_published_time":"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":987,"height":717,"url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Raul","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Raul","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886"},"author":{"name":"Raul","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0"},"headline":"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant","datePublished":"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886"},"wordCount":345,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg","keywords":["Domestic Servant","Embassy","Morocco"],"articleSection":["Courts","Home Main Slider"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886","name":"Couple Pleads Guilty to Keeping Moroccan Woman as a Domestic Servant","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg","datePublished":"2014-05-06T19:40:08+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-06T19:42:10+00:00","description":"WASHINGTON \u00a0 - \u00a0A couple plead guilty to bringing a woman from Morocco into the United States and keeping her in their home as a domestic servant for","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=2886#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Morocco-Embassy-Washington-D.C..jpg","width":987,"height":717,"caption":"Moroccan Embassy Washington D.C."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/","name":"American Justice Notebook","description":""Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." \u2014 Thomas Jefferson","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization","name":"American Justice Notebook","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales.jpg","width":675,"height":231,"caption":"American Justice Notebook"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0","name":"Raul","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","caption":"Raul"},"description":"Raul Hernandez is a former journalist. He has worked as a newspaper reporter for more than 30 years at the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso Times, Press Enterprise in Riverside, California and the Ventura County Star in California. He was a court reporter for more than 20 years.","sameAs":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}