Federal prosecutors spent over a year working to extradite Yana Leonova (33) from France, a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling more than two million dollars of sensitive US aviation equipment into Russia, but she is now at risk of being deported by ICE before going to trial.
Trumpf junta apparatchiks issued an immigration detainer for Yana Leonova shortly after she was paroled into the US on 3 Nov to face a ten-count indictment charging her with fraud, smuggling, and money-laundering.
US Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui declared: "Indeed, it is both preposterous and offensive for the government to bring someone into the United States against their will and then turn around and seek ICE detention because that person is here illegally. The government needs to decide what its priorities are: ginning up deportation stats or prosecuting alleged criminals."
Link: Indictment
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Below appears to be the same suspect in this international and Kafkaesque melodrama brought to you by the incompetent Trumpf junta.
