ICE to Deport Defendant Extradited to the US

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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.

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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.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 12:55 AM | Reply

Look at this colossal waste of time, money and judicial resources.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 01:30 PM | Reply

"deported"

Right.

This administration has Putin's back.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-11 02:23 PM | Reply

Why are we deporting people who are waiting to stand trial? They are getting a free pass to dodge justice.

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-12-12 10:10 PM | Reply

"ICE to Deport Defendant Extradited to the US"

Self-licking ice cream cone.
In political jargon, a self-licking ice cream cone is a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself.
en.wikipedia.org

Republicans are proving beyond any doubt that Government is a huge inefficient pointless waste of money, when that's what The President wants it to be.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-12 10:20 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Why are we deporting people who are waiting to stand trial? ...

Good question.

Does that show the Trump admin's total lack of evidence in deporting these people?

And as a corollary , I'd also ask ... why did Pres trump choose to kill the two survivors, clinging to flotsam, of the early September boat attack instead of bringing them to the US for prosecution?

And then there are the Epstein files.

This current administration seems to be quite focused upon suppressing evidence.

But I have to ask, why?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-12 10:30 PM | Reply