with the ongoing news of alleged illegal aliens, wet/foot dry foot policies... there ARE those who lay in wait for many of these VULNERABLE many... to take advantage, misuse, abuse...
the incredulous part of the following is that of the defense argument of all the charitable work that the defendant has done and her crash diet... charity does not forgive and she should have gone head first on the crash diet... submiited for your perusal...
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP) -- A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted on a 12-count federal indictment.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted on a 12-count federal indictment.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
The trial provided a glimpse into a growing U.S. problem of domestic workers exploited in slave-like conditions.
The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers as punishment. One victim was forced to eat dozens of chili peppers and then was forced to eat her own vomit when she couldn't keep the peppers down, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt called the testimony "eye-opening, to say the least -- that things like that go on in our country."
"In her arrogance, she treated Samirah and Enung as less than people," Assistant U.S. Attorney Demetri Jones said. "Justice for the victims, that's what the government is asking for."
Federal sentencing guidelines had recommended a range of 12 to 15 years in prison for Sabhnani, who was identified as the one who inflicted the abuse. In addition to prison, she will serve three years of probation and was fined $25,000.
"I just want to say that I love my children very much," the defendant told the court as two of her grown children looked on. "I was brought to this Earth to help people who are in need."
Mahender Sabhnani, 51, who is free on bail while awaiting his own Friday sentencing, wept as he watched his wife's punishment pronounced.
He was charged with the same crimes because he allowed the conduct to take place and benefited from the work the women performed in his home, prosecutors said. He is expected to receive a much shorter prison term.
Prosecutors contended that the accusations amounted to a "modern-day slavery" case. They said the maids were subjected to "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture," which ended in May 2007, when one of the women fled early on Mother's Day. She wandered into a Dunkin' Donuts wearing nothing but rags, and employees called police.
"This did not happen in the 1800s," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lesko said during the trial. "This happened in the 21st century. This happened in Muttontown, New York."
The women, whose relatives in Indonesia were paid about $100 a month -- the women themselves received no cash -- said they were tortured and beaten for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from trash bins because they were poorly fed. Both women also said they were forced to sleep on mats in the kitchen.
Spatt postponed a decision on the amount of back wages owed to the women. Prosecutors suggested that the women were due more than $1.1 million, but defense attorneys said the figure should be much lower.
The couple also face fines and could be forced to forfeit their home, which is valued at almost $2 million. Mahender Sabhnani ran an international perfume business out of a home office.
One of the women arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002, the second in 2005. Their passports and other travel documents were immediately confiscated by the Sabhnanis, the women testified.
The defense, which intends to appeal, contended the two women concocted the story as a way of escaping the house for more lucrative opportunities. They also argued that the housekeepers practiced witchcraft and may have abused themselves as part of a self-mutilation ritual.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Hoffman said that 175 letters were submitted to the court detailing Sabhnani's charitable acts around the world. He called her "a woman who spent a lifetime doing good deeds."
Hoffman said that around 2004 or 2005, Sabhnani's weight plummeted from 325 pounds to 135. "She did it by starving herself," and that resulted in a chemical imbalance and significant malnourishment. "She had become a very different person."
"I think it's very harsh," Hoffman said after the sentencing. "She has suffered dramatically."
not harsh enough... she should share & suffer the humiliation and degradation the victims went through...
with the ongoing news of alleged illegal aliens, wet/foot dry foot policies... there ARE those who lay in wait for many of these VULNERABLE many... to take advantage, misuse, abuse...
the incredulous part of the following is that of the defense argument of all the charitable work that the defendant has done and her crash diet... charity does not forgive and she should have gone head first on the crash diet... submiited for your perusal...
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP) -- A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted on a 12-count federal indictment.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted on a 12-count federal indictment.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
The trial provided a glimpse into a growing U.S. problem of domestic workers exploited in slave-like conditions.
The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers as punishment. One victim was forced to eat dozens of chili peppers and then was forced to eat her own vomit when she couldn't keep the peppers down, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt called the testimony "eye-opening, to say the least -- that things like that go on in our country."
"In her arrogance, she treated Samirah and Enung as less than people," Assistant U.S. Attorney Demetri Jones said. "Justice for the victims, that's what the government is asking for."
Federal sentencing guidelines had recommended a range of 12 to 15 years in prison for Sabhnani, who was identified as the one who inflicted the abuse. In addition to prison, she will serve three years of probation and was fined $25,000.
"I just want to say that I love my children very much," the defendant told the court as two of her grown children looked on. "I was brought to this Earth to help people who are in need."
Mahender Sabhnani, 51, who is free on bail while awaiting his own Friday sentencing, wept as he watched his wife's punishment pronounced.
He was charged with the same crimes because he allowed the conduct to take place and benefited from the work the women performed in his home, prosecutors said. He is expected to receive a much shorter prison term.
Prosecutors contended that the accusations amounted to a "modern-day slavery" case. They said the maids were subjected to "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture," which ended in May 2007, when one of the women fled early on Mother's Day. She wandered into a Dunkin' Donuts wearing nothing but rags, and employees called police.
"This did not happen in the 1800s," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lesko said during the trial. "This happened in the 21st century. This happened in Muttontown, New York."
The women, whose relatives in Indonesia were paid about $100 a month -- the women themselves received no cash -- said they were tortured and beaten for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from trash bins because they were poorly fed. Both women also said they were forced to sleep on mats in the kitchen.
Spatt postponed a decision on the amount of back wages owed to the women. Prosecutors suggested that the women were due more than $1.1 million, but defense attorneys said the figure should be much lower.
The couple also face fines and could be forced to forfeit their home, which is valued at almost $2 million. Mahender Sabhnani ran an international perfume business out of a home office.
One of the women arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002, the second in 2005. Their passports and other travel documents were immediately confiscated by the Sabhnanis, the women testified.
The defense, which intends to appeal, contended the two women concocted the story as a way of escaping the house for more lucrative opportunities. They also argued that the housekeepers practiced witchcraft and may have abused themselves as part of a self-mutilation ritual.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Hoffman said that 175 letters were submitted to the court detailing Sabhnani's charitable acts around the world. He called her "a woman who spent a lifetime doing good deeds."
Hoffman said that around 2004 or 2005, Sabhnani's weight plummeted from 325 pounds to 135. "She did it by starving herself," and that resulted in a chemical imbalance and significant malnourishment. "She had become a very different person."
"I think it's very harsh," Hoffman said after the sentencing. "She has suffered dramatically."
not harsh enough... she should share & suffer the humiliation and degradation the victims went through...
Quoting: Originally posted by rumplestilskin2010 ]quote[If you think she and her husband treated those two women badly, go to your run of the mill nursing home for the unwealthy elderly.]quote[
the care or the care less of the elderly and disabled in rehabs, convalesce, assisted, etc. is a whole 'nother topic, as well as how many 'children' drop their parents off at the drive-up nursing home so reality won't bite them... next time you're in the vicinity of one... give a visit to a complete stranger... you'll both feel good...
Yes, I have done this - drop in at the nursing home. The immense joy they feel just to have a visitor pop in and chat for awhile. It brightened their day and mine.
Quoting rumplestilskin2010:
]quote[If you think she and her husband treated those two women badly, go to your run of the mill nursing home for the unwealthy elderly.]quote[
the care or the care less of the elderly and disabled in rehabs, convalesce, assisted, etc. is a whole 'nother topic, as well as how many 'children' drop their parents off at the drive-up nursing home so reality won't bite them... next time you're in the vicinity of one... give a visit to a complete stranger... you'll both feel good...
Yes, I have done this - drop in at the nursing home. The immense joy they feel just to have a visitor pop in and chat for awhile. It brightened their day and mine.
]quote[If you think she and her husband treated those two women badly, go to your run of the mill nursing home for the unwealthy elderly.]quote[
the care or the care less of the elderly and disabled in rehabs, convalesce, assisted, etc. is a whole 'nother topic, as well as how many 'children' drop their parents off at the drive-up nursing home so reality won't bite them... next time you're in the vicinity of one... give a visit to a complete stranger... you'll both feel good...
]quote[If you think she and her husband treated those two women badly, go to your run of the mill nursing home for the unwealthy elderly.]quote[
the care or the care less of the elderly and disabled in rehabs, convalesce, assisted, etc. is a whole 'nother topic, as well as how many 'children' drop their parents off at the drive-up nursing home so reality won't bite them... next time you're in the vicinity of one... give a visit to a complete stranger... you'll both feel good...
and at the bottom line... not a word of apology....
y'all come back soon 'gin, heah...???
Wed July 23, 2008
Behind the Scenes: Black and shopping in America
* Story Highlights * Leah Wells, two friends, all in their 20s, all black, mistakenly detained for shoplifting * "We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that," Wells said * "We were dressed professionally," said Wells, who said they were on lunch break * "Some still only see the color of your skin," Wells said
(CNN) -- For Atlanta native Leah Wells, it's the humiliation she remembers most.
Not long ago, Wells sent me a note and forwarded a letter she had just mailed to Glenn Murphy, chairman and CEO of Gap Inc. The letter detailed what happened when Wells and two girlfriends decided to ditch the gym during an office lunch break and do some "power-shopping" instead. The three young women, all in their 20s and all black, ended up detained for shoplifting.
"We were dressed professionally," Wells told me. "It was casual Friday. We had on dresses and casual office wear. We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that."
Wells says she and her friends were detained by six Gwinnett County, Georgia, police officers for "about an hour and a half" at the entrance of an Old Navy store, owned by Gap. Their crime, as Wells sees it, was being black in America.
In her letter to Murphy, Wells describes enduring "disdainful stares from the mothers and grandmothers and children entering the store." Police responded to a call from mall security about a gang of shoplifters in the store. They found no stolen merchandise on Wells or her friends. No one -- not the police, not the store managers -- bothered to apologize.
"No matter your education, your status or profession, some still only see the color of your skin," Wells wrote two months after the event.
Sad to say, but it's a common refrain from black people in this country. All of us know someone who has, or have ourselves, been stopped for no apparent reason while driving or been searched for fitting a description.
It happened to my brother Orestes. A Harvard medical student at the time, he was visiting a friend in Brooklyn, New York, when he was stopped and searched by officers late one night. He "fit the profile" of a robbery suspect. They dumped his belongings in the street and made him lie face-down. What infuriated him was that no apology ever followed when it became clear the cops got it wrong. It seemed no one felt that one was owed. My brother was seething when he told me the story. It happens all the time.
And it happens across the geographic and socioeconomic spectrum: rich, poor and in between. What surprised me most often during our production of "Black in America" were the universal stories of blacks followed or profiled. It was shocking to me.
So many parents told me of sitting down with their sons starting at 12 years old to tell them what to do if pulled over by the police so as not to get shot. I don't imagine many white parents even think such a conversation is necessary with their teenage sons.
We've spent the past 18 months trying to accurately tell the story of black people in this country, a story rarely told with the depth and fullness it requires. Black people are seen frequently as rappers and "ballers" and sometimes exceptional, like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But coverage of the vast black middle class is nearly nonexistent.
What's the impact of that on America? What's the impact of that on young black kids who don't see themselves in mainstream media associated with academic achievement, success, hard work? It's hard to know, but it cannot be good.
I'm the product of a white father who's Australian and a black mother who's Cuban. They married in the United States in 1958 but had to leave their neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, because interracial marriage was illegal in that state. By the time my little brother Orestes was born in 1967 -- the sixth O'Brien child -- the Supreme Court finally changed the law and lifted the ban on interracial marriage. When I tell that story in speeches, older folks in the audience nod their heads while younger ones gasp. It was illegal for my parents to marry, and it wasn't all that long ago.
Black and white people need to talk about our shared history -- policies that have held some people back, opportunities that some have not sought. My sense is the time is right for this dialogue on race. With a black man running for president Americans are talking about race every day. Video Watch how documentary brought viewer to tears ?
Leah Wells tells me she is "coming to an understanding" with Gap. When I contacted Gap myself, a spokesperson told me that an internal investigation led to the firing of a manager. Later she e-mailed this statement: "We realize it's probably too late. We regret that we did not apologize for what these ladies experienced at our store, and this goes against everything we stand for as a company." advertisement
Wells has decided to not only get mad but get active, writing and talking about what happened to her and her friends on a day they just set out to do some shopping.
Making a change is not for the weak willed. Our documentary "Black in America" will make you proud and angry, hopeful and frustrated. Please, go out and DO something about what you're seeing and feeling. Give your money, give your time, write op-eds, commit to changing the part of reality that's not good.
Another day in the life of a black american
and at the bottom line... not a word of apology....
y'all come back soon 'gin, heah...???
Wed July 23, 2008
Behind the Scenes: Black and shopping in America
* Story Highlights * Leah Wells, two friends, all in their 20s, all black, mistakenly detained for shoplifting * "We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that," Wells said * "We were dressed professionally," said Wells, who said they were on lunch break * "Some still only see the color of your skin," Wells said
(CNN) -- For Atlanta native Leah Wells, it's the humiliation she remembers most.
Not long ago, Wells sent me a note and forwarded a letter she had just mailed to Glenn Murphy, chairman and CEO of Gap Inc. The letter detailed what happened when Wells and two girlfriends decided to ditch the gym during an office lunch break and do some "power-shopping" instead. The three young women, all in their 20s and all black, ended up detained for shoplifting.
"We were dressed professionally," Wells told me. "It was casual Friday. We had on dresses and casual office wear. We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that."
Wells says she and her friends were detained by six Gwinnett County, Georgia, police officers for "about an hour and a half" at the entrance of an Old Navy store, owned by Gap. Their crime, as Wells sees it, was being black in America.
In her letter to Murphy, Wells describes enduring "disdainful stares from the mothers and grandmothers and children entering the store." Police responded to a call from mall security about a gang of shoplifters in the store. They found no stolen merchandise on Wells or her friends. No one -- not the police, not the store managers -- bothered to apologize.
"No matter your education, your status or profession, some still only see the color of your skin," Wells wrote two months after the event.
Sad to say, but it's a common refrain from black people in this country. All of us know someone who has, or have ourselves, been stopped for no apparent reason while driving or been searched for fitting a description.
It happened to my brother Orestes. A Harvard medical student at the time, he was visiting a friend in Brooklyn, New York, when he was stopped and searched by officers late one night. He "fit the profile" of a robbery suspect. They dumped his belongings in the street and made him lie face-down. What infuriated him was that no apology ever followed when it became clear the cops got it wrong. It seemed no one felt that one was owed. My brother was seething when he told me the story. It happens all the time.
And it happens across the geographic and socioeconomic spectrum: rich, poor and in between. What surprised me most often during our production of "Black in America" were the universal stories of blacks followed or profiled. It was shocking to me.
So many parents told me of sitting down with their sons starting at 12 years old to tell them what to do if pulled over by the police so as not to get shot. I don't imagine many white parents even think such a conversation is necessary with their teenage sons.
We've spent the past 18 months trying to accurately tell the story of black people in this country, a story rarely told with the depth and fullness it requires. Black people are seen frequently as rappers and "ballers" and sometimes exceptional, like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But coverage of the vast black middle class is nearly nonexistent.
What's the impact of that on America? What's the impact of that on young black kids who don't see themselves in mainstream media associated with academic achievement, success, hard work? It's hard to know, but it cannot be good.
I'm the product of a white father who's Australian and a black mother who's Cuban. They married in the United States in 1958 but had to leave their neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, because interracial marriage was illegal in that state. By the time my little brother Orestes was born in 1967 -- the sixth O'Brien child -- the Supreme Court finally changed the law and lifted the ban on interracial marriage. When I tell that story in speeches, older folks in the audience nod their heads while younger ones gasp. It was illegal for my parents to marry, and it wasn't all that long ago.
Black and white people need to talk about our shared history -- policies that have held some people back, opportunities that some have not sought. My sense is the time is right for this dialogue on race. With a black man running for president Americans are talking about race every day. Video Watch how documentary brought viewer to tears ?
Leah Wells tells me she is "coming to an understanding" with Gap. When I contacted Gap myself, a spokesperson told me that an internal investigation led to the firing of a manager. Later she e-mailed this statement: "We realize it's probably too late. We regret that we did not apologize for what these ladies experienced at our store, and this goes against everything we stand for as a company." advertisement
Wells has decided to not only get mad but get active, writing and talking about what happened to her and her friends on a day they just set out to do some shopping.
Making a change is not for the weak willed. Our documentary "Black in America" will make you proud and angry, hopeful and frustrated. Please, go out and DO something about what you're seeing and feeling. Give your money, give your time, write op-eds, commit to changing the part of reality that's not good.
Quoting: Originally posted by jammer2 Is this a case of racism or slavery? Or both? I'm not sure. But it IS one of the most sordid things I've heard of... I think what makes me most angry about the thing is that these people brought their unacceptable behaviour to the U.S. and made a mockery of us. These two tried to follow the other famous families that made money from slaves and the slave trade, then built libraries and universities to soothe their parched souls. HANG 'EM BOTH as an object lesson in intolerance. As Ben Franklin said, 'the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully'.
beyond despicable, the sentence too light.... out to the backyard for some serious flogging...as in saline wetted leather strips...
then again i would have deeded the mansion over to the victims and made the sentenced husband and wife the servants for twenty years... and wear a noose at the same time...
Quoting jammer2:
Is this a case of racism or slavery? Or both? I'm not sure. But it IS one of the most sordid things I've heard of... I think what makes me most angry about the thing is that these people brought their unacceptable behaviour to the U.S. and made a mockery of us. These two tried to follow the other famous families that made money from slaves and the slave trade, then built libraries and universities to soothe their parched souls. HANG 'EM BOTH as an object lesson in intolerance. As Ben Franklin said, 'the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully'.
beyond despicable, the sentence too light.... out to the backyard for some serious flogging...as in saline wetted leather strips...
then again i would have deeded the mansion over to the victims and made the sentenced husband and wife the servants for twenty years... and wear a noose at the same time...
Is this a case of racism or slavery? Or both? I'm not sure. But it IS one of the most sordid things I've heard of... I think what makes me most angry about the thing is that these people brought their unacceptable behaviour to the U.S. and made a mockery of us. These two tried to follow the other famous families that made money from slaves and the slave trade, then built libraries and universities to soothe their parched souls. HANG 'EM BOTH as an object lesson in intolerance. As Ben Franklin said, 'the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully'.
Is this a case of racism or slavery? Or both? I'm not sure. But it IS one of the most sordid things I've heard of... I think what makes me most angry about the thing is that these people brought their unacceptable behaviour to the U.S. and made a mockery of us. These two tried to follow the other famous families that made money from slaves and the slave trade, then built libraries and universities to soothe their parched souls. HANG 'EM BOTH as an object lesson in intolerance. As Ben Franklin said, 'the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully'.
Quoting: Originally posted by rumplestilskin2010 ]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
yes... how WOULD she know...???
Yes, sounds good to me!!
Quoting rumplestilskin2010:
]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
Quoting: Originally posted by rumplestilskin2010 ]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
yes... how WOULD she know...???
Yes, sounds good to me!!
Quoting rumplestilskin2010:
]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
yes... how WOULD she know...???
]quote[***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!! ]quote[
BUZZKILL...!!! rofllmao... can't fool you 1717, can't i...??? more like an interracialist... may have to invite you to the peace conference...
marshmellow clark, go figure... she was too busy getting camera ready to really get into furball's busyness... or chanting with dobby, 'we're gonna be rich, we're gonna be rich'...
bugliosi's 'outrage'... never made it to the night table... started and finished in the living room......
take the glove.... store in a nice dry a/c area... NOW try it on...!!!
heavy topic heavy answers.... racism, bigotry, prejudice, ethnic cleansing, genocide, lived it, live, related to it... it would appear that the further away one gets from a civilization trauma the more voices you hear that say, WHAT...??? never happened...
As far as racism here in the U.S.... Loaded topic loaded answer..
As far as racism--Although the majority may have an actual definition for racism.. Unless one has actually experienced it I dont think one really understands nor knows the gravity of it.. One example is supposedly educated lawyer Marcia Clark...She put a known racist on trial in the Simpson case being policeman Mark Furman.. And of course not being able to realize, fathom the magnitude or envision the girth of his racism.. This discounted fact ended up with her and the prosecution losing the case!!! {maybe thats also an example of racism backfiring}
***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!!
As far as racism here in the U.S.... Loaded topic loaded answer..
As far as racism--Although the majority may have an actual definition for racism.. Unless one has actually experienced it I dont think one really understands nor knows the gravity of it.. One example is supposedly educated lawyer Marcia Clark...She put a known racist on trial in the Simpson case being policeman Mark Furman.. And of course not being able to realize, fathom the magnitude or envision the girth of his racism.. This discounted fact ended up with her and the prosecution losing the case!!! {maybe thats also an example of racism backfiring}
***I am in no way suggesting that rumple is a racist!!!!
add nauseum... lots of nauseum... and he ONLY got THREE years for his contribution... only THREE years...??? wanna talk about capital punishment...??? to defile another human being to something lower than whale feces is abominable... and along with lets toss a bit of racism in here...
i think they should let the victims own the mansion and the couple should be the domestics for the next 20 years...
Husband gets prison in L.I. slavery case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, June 27th 2008, 4:05 PM Mahender Sabhnani, a multimillionaire perfume maker, was sentenced to 3 years in prison today for holding Indonesian maids as slaves. CLICK for evidence from the trial.
Mahender Sabhnani, a multimillionaire perfume maker, was sentenced to 3 years in prison today for holding Indonesian maids as slaves. CLICK for evidence from the trial.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A millionaire convicted of helping his wife keep two Indonesian housekeepers as virtual slaves was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison, ending a trial that shed light on the often little-seen exploitation and abuse of domestic workers.
International perfume maker Mahender Sabhnani, 51, was sentenced to a prison term of three and one-third years and fined $12,500. He was convicted in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from the trash because they were poorly fed.
On Thursday, Sabhnani tearfully watched as his wife, Varsha, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. On Friday, she dabbed her eyes as she saw her husband meet his own fate.
Prosecutors contended Varsha Sabhnani was primarily responsible for inflicting years of abuse on the poorly educated servants.
Her husband, they said, allowed the conduct to take place and benefited from the work the women performed in their $2 million home; he operated the business from an adjacent office.
"The Mr. didn't know about it. The Mr. was nice. The Mr. didn't hear. The Mr. didn't shout," said defense attorney Stephen Scaring, recounting the victims' testimony while arguing for home confinement instead of prison.
"He was the master," countered Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lesko. "By holding slaves, Mahender Sabhnani violated every notion of freedom that we enjoy in America."
"He had to know what was going on under his roof, and he needs to be punished," the prosecutor said.
Judge Arthur Spatt conceded that Mahender Sabhnani did not personally inflict abuse, but said he must have been aware of it.
"He's a success story: The immigrant who came to this country and succeeded in business. He had to know all these dreadful things and did nothing," said the judge.
The husband is originally from India, and the wife from Indonesia. Both are naturalized U.S. citizens.
One of the workers arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002; the second came in 2005. The Sabhnanis immediately confiscated the servants' passports and other travel documents, the women testified.
Prosecutors said the "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture" ended in May 2007, when one of the women fled in the early morning hours of Mother's Day. She wandered into a Dunkin' Donuts wearing nothing but rags, and employees called police.
The husband pleaded for freedom at his sentencing, saying the couple's four children wonder, "'Who's going to help us? How can we do it on our own?' Every day, I look at fear in their eyes."
The grown children sat stoically in the front row as he spoke.
Scaring said the prosecution had taken a toll on the Sabhnanis and their children.
"This is a case that has been devastating to this family," said Scaring. "They are mocked, they are ridiculed, they are laughed at."
A hearing on whether the couple must forfeit their Long Island mansion was postponed until July 11.
add nauseum... lots of nauseum... and he ONLY got THREE years for his contribution... only THREE years...??? wanna talk about capital punishment...??? to defile another human being to something lower than whale feces is abominable... and along with lets toss a bit of racism in here...
i think they should let the victims own the mansion and the couple should be the domestics for the next 20 years...
Husband gets prison in L.I. slavery case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, June 27th 2008, 4:05 PM Mahender Sabhnani, a multimillionaire perfume maker, was sentenced to 3 years in prison today for holding Indonesian maids as slaves. CLICK for evidence from the trial.
Mahender Sabhnani, a multimillionaire perfume maker, was sentenced to 3 years in prison today for holding Indonesian maids as slaves. CLICK for evidence from the trial.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A millionaire convicted of helping his wife keep two Indonesian housekeepers as virtual slaves was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison, ending a trial that shed light on the often little-seen exploitation and abuse of domestic workers.
International perfume maker Mahender Sabhnani, 51, was sentenced to a prison term of three and one-third years and fined $12,500. He was convicted in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from the trash because they were poorly fed.
On Thursday, Sabhnani tearfully watched as his wife, Varsha, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. On Friday, she dabbed her eyes as she saw her husband meet his own fate.
Prosecutors contended Varsha Sabhnani was primarily responsible for inflicting years of abuse on the poorly educated servants.
Her husband, they said, allowed the conduct to take place and benefited from the work the women performed in their $2 million home; he operated the business from an adjacent office.
"The Mr. didn't know about it. The Mr. was nice. The Mr. didn't hear. The Mr. didn't shout," said defense attorney Stephen Scaring, recounting the victims' testimony while arguing for home confinement instead of prison.
"He was the master," countered Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lesko. "By holding slaves, Mahender Sabhnani violated every notion of freedom that we enjoy in America."
"He had to know what was going on under his roof, and he needs to be punished," the prosecutor said.
Judge Arthur Spatt conceded that Mahender Sabhnani did not personally inflict abuse, but said he must have been aware of it.
"He's a success story: The immigrant who came to this country and succeeded in business. He had to know all these dreadful things and did nothing," said the judge.
The husband is originally from India, and the wife from Indonesia. Both are naturalized U.S. citizens.
One of the workers arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002; the second came in 2005. The Sabhnanis immediately confiscated the servants' passports and other travel documents, the women testified.
Prosecutors said the "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture" ended in May 2007, when one of the women fled in the early morning hours of Mother's Day. She wandered into a Dunkin' Donuts wearing nothing but rags, and employees called police.
The husband pleaded for freedom at his sentencing, saying the couple's four children wonder, "'Who's going to help us? How can we do it on our own?' Every day, I look at fear in their eyes."
The grown children sat stoically in the front row as he spoke.
Scaring said the prosecution had taken a toll on the Sabhnanis and their children.
"This is a case that has been devastating to this family," said Scaring. "They are mocked, they are ridiculed, they are laughed at."
A hearing on whether the couple must forfeit their Long Island mansion was postponed until July 11.
