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\"\"A San Bernardino County man was sentenced Monday to 41 months in federal prison for operating a \u201cbirth tourism\u201d scheme that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their children, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner sentenced Michael Wei Yueh Liu, 59.<\/span><\/p>\n

After <\/span>a four-day trial, a jury on September 13 found Liu and Jing Dong, 47, of Rancho Cucamonga, guilty of one count of conspiracy and 10 counts of international money laundering, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dong is expected to be sentenced in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"From at least January 2012 to March 2015, Liu and Dong ran a maternity house in Rancho Cucamonga. <\/span><\/p>\n

Liu and Dong rented apartments in Southern California to provide short-term housing and provided other services to pregnant women from China who traveled to the United States to give birth so their children would acquire U.S. citizenship. <\/span><\/p>\n

Typically, within one or two months after giving birth, the women returned to China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the services Liu and Dong provided were assistance on how to obtain visas to enter the United States, customs entry guidance, housing, and transportation in the United States, as well as assistance applying for U.S. legal documents for the children of their customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"LaLiu and Dong advised their customers on how to hide their pregnancies from the immigration authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n

Liu and Dong also knew \u2013 or deliberately avoided learning \u2013 that their customers lied on their visa applications submitted to immigration authorities to enter the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally, their customers\u2019 visa applications falsely stated that the purpose of the trip to the United States was for tourism, when it was to give birth, and the length of the stay was days or weeks, when it was in fact months, officials stated. <\/span><\/p>\n

The visas also misstated the location where the customers intended to stay, which was defendants\u2019 maternity hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liu and Dong or their agents also advised their customers to fly to ports of entry with perceived less customs scrutiny, such as Hawaii, before flying to Los Angeles, to wear loose fitting clothing, to favor certain lines at customs that they perceived to be less strict, and on how to answer the customs officials\u2019 questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liu and Dong received money from overseas and used that money to promote their scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the FBI investigated this matter. <\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gregory W. Staples and Kevin Y. Fu of the Orange County Office prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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