US to deport Taiwanese official who abused Filipina maids.

Reuters

January 28, 2012

 CHICAGO – A US federal judge in Missouri ordered the deportation on Friday of an official from Taiwan who pleaded guilty last year to human trafficking charges for abusing her two Filipina maids, the US attorney’s office said.

Hsien-Hsien Liu, the 64-year-old director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in November and charged with fraud in foreign labor contracting in connection with her treatment of the two maids.

Liu ultimately admitted to forcing the two women, whom she hired in the Philippines and brought to work for her in the United States between 2009 and 2011, to toil day and night for significantly less pay than promised in their contracts.

US District Judge Greg Kays in Kansas City sentenced Liu, who has been in custody since her arrest, to time served and ordered her deported back to Taiwan as part of a plea deal.

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