US: Founder, CEO, and Employee of International Adoption Guides (IAG) Sentenced for Adoption Fraud Schemes

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US: Founder, CEO, and Employee of International Adoption Guides (IAG) Sentenced for Adoption Fraud Schemes
United States Attorney Office, District of South Carolina – August 14, 2017
United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Mary Mooney, age 58, of Mooresville, North Carolina; James Harding, age 57, of Lawrenceville, Georgia; and Alisa Bivens, age 36, of Gastonia, North Carolina were sentenced last week in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina. Mooney was sentenced for Accreditation Fraud regarding adoption conducted in Kazakhstan, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 14944, and Harding and Bivens were sentenced for conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with adoptions conducted in Ethiopia, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/founder-ceo-and-employee-international-adoption-guides-iag-sentenced-adoption-fraud