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Charleston – A man of Parkersburg was sentenced to three years of probation from the federal government this week and sentenced to 75,000 US dollars on a foreign national who lived and worked for his business without payment.

Frederick Sayre Anderson, 65, from Parkersburg, was sentenced to the southern district of West Virginia on Tuesday, after he guilty, to hide, accommodate and protect an alien from discovery in January.

According to judicial documents and explanations that were made in court, he worked and lived in or around January 2011 to May 7, 2021, a foreign citizen of Madagascar and lived in Andersonsburg's business, a laboratory that provides the state and local government company all over the country.

As part of his guilty request, Anderson admitted that the foreign citizen in a 90-day fiancee K-1-not immigrant visa he had received emerged after a release from the US prosecutor for the southern district of West Virginia. While Anderson knew that the visa had to marry him within 90 days, they never married and he knew that their presence in the United States was illegal after the visa had expired on April 8, 2011, the press release said.

Anderson also admitted that foreign citizens had not received any compensation for the work she did in his business, the press release said. She slept in an office in the shop that was converted into a bedroom. The business had no shower facilities. The foreign citizen showered in the house of Anderson's business partner John Robert Coe or cleaned himself with baby cloths, as a Coes of residence, according to the press release.

The woman exhausted her savings of life and Anderson encouraged her to lie about her income to receive credit cards, the press release said. He then used her credit cards to pay business costs and for travel, including a trip to the Cayman Islands, which Anderson received with a friend.

Anderson also admitted that he took steps to prevent government officials from finding the foreign nationals when they visited his business, the press release said.

“In this strange and sad case, the defendant housed an illegal alien for a decade and took advantage of it at every opportunity,” said Lisa G. Johnston's deputy lawyer. “The loyalty of the United States immigration laws is crucial for public security, national security and the rule of law, and this office is obliged to enforce these laws.”

In January, the 66 -year -old Coe from Parkersburg announced that he would continue to employ a well -known illegal alien and is to be convicted on August 7th. As part of his plea contract, COE paid 54,740 US dollars in reimbursement.

Johnston made the announcement and praised the investigation of the US security security examinations, West Virginia State Police and Parkersburg Police Department.

The US district judge Thomas E. Johnston imposed the judgment. The deputy US lawyer Jonathan T. pursued the case.