Wife of Saudi Prince Faces 10 Years Imprisonment in US

by Jim Kouri, CPP

The wife of one of the Saudi royal family living in Winchester, MA, pled guilty on Tuesday in federal court to charges of visa fraud and harboring of illegal aliens relating to her employment of two domestic servants. She faces 10 years in federal prison.
 
Hana Al Jader, age 40, of Winchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Reginald J. Lindsay to two counts of visa fraud and two counts of harboring illegal aliens for private financial gain in connection with her employment of two women from Indonesia as domestic servants.
   
At today’s plea hearing, the prosecutor told the court that Al Jader, who has resided in Winchester and Arlington since the mid-1990’s with her invalid husband, Prince Mohamed Al Saud, brought the two Indonesian women to the United States in 2003 to work as domestic servants. In order to obtain visas for the women, she was required to submit to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia a copy of a work contract guaranteeing that the women would be paid $1,500 a month and would work no more than 8 hours daily.

However, when the women arrived in the United States, they were required to work — cooking, cleaning, serving meals, caring for the severely disabled Prince, and serving at frequent parties — routinely in excess of 8 hours per day. Al Jader paid them only $300 a month, which, at their request, was wired to their families in Indonesia.
   
In July 2003, Al Jader, through an attorney, filed applications with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (”BCIS”) for a six-month extension of the visas for her domestic servants. In connection with the extension application, she submitted another employment contract, which again represented falsely that the servants were each being paid $1,500 per month and working only eight hours per day.

Based on the false information provided in the contracts, the servants’ visas were extended; however, when those extensions expired, Al Jader failed to apply for or obtain any additional extensions. Despite the fact that the servants’ legal status had expired, Al Jader continued to employ them for the next 11 months at the same pay rate of $300 per month.
   
In exchange for Al Jader’s plea of guilty to these charges, her agreement to pay restitution of approximately $98,000 to each of the servants, and her acceptance of a stipulated order of deportation to her native Saudi Arabia, the government agreed to dismiss pending charges of forced labor and document servitude against her.
   
Judge Lindsay scheduled sentencing for December 12, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. Al Jader faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison, to be followed by 3 years supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 on each of the four counts.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations.  He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.   Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com.  He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com.   He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc.  His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
   

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Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line. | More from Jim Kouri, CPP