A man who allowed an estimated 300 illegal immigrants to fraudulently obtain Georgia driver's licenses has been sentenced to prison.
Ken Li, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced Monday to four years and two months in prison by U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten in Atlanta. Li, with the help of others who were also convicted in the scheme, attracted illegal immigrants through ads in Chinese language newspapers. They would meet in Atlanta parking lots and then be taken to driver's license bureaus in Colquitt or Thomasville where an examiner, being paid $500 for each illegal license, would issue the licenses without requiring any proper documentation, federal prosecutors said.
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Steve Jones and Amy Totenberg have been sworn in as new judges on the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
During a private ceremony on Friday, Chief Judge Julie Carnes swore in Jones, a former Superior Court judge from Athens, and Totenberg, a former Atlanta lawyer who served as an arbitrator and mediator. The two new judges were confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Feb. 28. Both will now begin judicial training and later will have their formal, public investitures.
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