I’m sure this upstanding businessman would have been one of the “good character” illegals to receive amnesty.
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A Pakistani citizen was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for using his Philadelphia-based money transfer business to send more than $2 million to a bank in a Taliban-controlled territory in Pakistan, federal prosecutors said.
Habib Khan, 49, who has lived in the United States illegally for the last five years, transferred the money to a bank in Swat region where his brothers distributed the funds.
Prosecutors said it was unlikely that Khan could have dispensed the millions of dollars without paying a tribute or a bribe to Taliban officials. In addition, Khan never obtained a license to operate the business and never registered this business with the federal government, as required by law.
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Pakistani sent to prison for sending money | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/19/2009 (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20091019_Pakistani_sent_to_prison_for_sending_mone y_to_Swat_NO_HEAD_SPECIFIED.html - broken link)