Gadhia faces up to 5 years jail term and $250,000 in fines. WASHINGTON: A prominent IndianAmenican lawyer, Wednesday, Pleaded guilty to election fraud for receiving at least $46,000 in illegal money from an official of the Indian Embassy in Washington to influence members of the Congress involved in foreign policy decisions affecting India. Lalit H, Gadhia, a S7year old immigration lawyer and fundraiser for Maryland Democrats, confessed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore to his role in the Indian Embassy scheme to buy Congressional lawmakers” support for Indian issues, involving the South As is region, He was for merely campaign treasurer lo Governor P.N. Glendenning of Maryland. Gadhia now faces up to five yours in. prison and $25,000 in fines in a ease that is almost unprecedented in diplomatic history where a foreign missing was involved in pumping money and then attempting to illegally launder 10 influence U.S. senators, and congressman, Prosecutors said the case against Gadhia is one of only a hand’ ful of cases in which foceiwa citizens OF Movement’s have been a linked te illegal Campaign contributions in a U.S, political men and may be the first of an official of a foreign embassy to be directly implicated.
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