By R. Cort Kirkwood
In a remarkable show of gratitude for the nation that took them in, two naturalized foreigners joined a conspiracy to import illegal aliens, a federal indictment alleges.
The grand jury in the U.S. district of New Mexico indicted Nan Zhang, 44, and her husband, Sanjay Khurana, 62, on August 12 for their major role in the conspiracy, which includes the charge of harboring illegals.
An immigrant from China, Zhang was a former police cadet in Albuquerque who sued for discrimination when she quit the police academy, a television station reported. The Justice Department did not report Khurana’s country of origin, but the name is Indian.
The three-count indictment alleges that the couple “conspired with human smugglers to rent properties in Albuquerque to be used as stash houses for individuals who had been unlawfully brought into the United States” between March 2023 and July 2025.
The pair ran four such stash houses, and “charged inflated rents” to house the illegals, “warned co-conspirators of law enforcement activity, and continued leasing apartments to human smugglers even after law enforcement discovered undocumented individuals at the properties.”
Such was the criminality that when cops responded to a shooting, they found 12 illegals in one of the stash houses, the indictment alleges.
And bringing and harboring illegals wasn’t the only crime the pair committed, the indictment alleges.
The pair also “conspired to launder money they believed to be proceeds of human smuggling. According to court documents, they offered to sell real estate for large cash payments while structuring the deals to avoid financial reporting requirements, including offering to use a third-party name and falsify sale records,” the DOJ summary of the indictment says.
The two naturalized citizens face charges of “conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conducting unlawful financial transactions.”
A conviction could end in 20 years in prison and forfeiting the properties…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/naturalized-citizens-indicted-for-smuggling-harboring-illegals-in-albuquerque/
