{"id":38435,"date":"2014-06-11T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=38435"},"modified":"2014-06-11T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:00:17","slug":"man-fake-marriage-case-pleads-guilty-lying-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-fake-marriage-case-pleads-guilty-lying-feds\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in a fake marriage case pleads guilty to lying to feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in sham marriage case entered a guilty plea in federal court yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Md. Shahadat Hossain, 45, a Bangladeshi national, pleaded guilty to false statement as part of a plea deal. <\/p>\n<p>A conviction of false statement carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and a three-year supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>Hossain will be sentenced on Oct. 24, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Senior Judge Alex R. Munson vacated the jury trial set for June 23, 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Munson allowed Hossain to remain free while awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on Feb. 25, 2013, Hossain lied to Homeland Security Investigations special agents when he said that he lived with his then-wife, Rosita Hossain, \u201cin an apartment on McArthur St. up Gualo Rai Rd\u201d and that he lived with her in that apartment since December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Court-appointed counsel Michael Evangelista served as counsel for Hossain. Assistant U.S. attorney Ross Naughton prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in sham marriage case entered a guilty plea in federal court yesterday. Md&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-38435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-district-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}