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By Roxana Hegeman
Wichita, Kansas (AP)
The secretary of an unrecognized Indian tribe will spend no more time in prison for her role in a nationwide scam to defraud immigrants by telling them membership would make them U.S. citizens.
Eduviges del Carmen Zamora showed no emotion Oct. 3 as a judge handed down the lenient sentence prosecutors had sought. The government had cited her substantial help in building its case against the Kaweah Indian Nation and its self-proclaimed leader, Malcolm Webber.
Wichita, Kansas (AP)
The secretary of an unrecognized Indian tribe will spend no more time in prison for her role in a nationwide scam to defraud immigrants by telling them membership would make them U.S. citizens.
Eduviges del Carmen Zamora showed no emotion Oct. 3 as a judge handed down the lenient sentence prosecutors had sought. The government had cited her substantial help in building its case against the Kaweah Indian Nation and its self-proclaimed leader, Malcolm Webber.
