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CHICAGO -- A Taiwanese official who pleaded guilty to mistreating two housekeepers brought from the Philippines to work in her Missouri home will soon be deported, a judge ruled Friday.
Liu Hsien-hsien, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in November for allegedly treating her Filipino housekeepers like slaves.
She soon reached a plea deal with prosecutors that allowed her to avoid spending up to five years in prison if convicted of the single charge of fraud in foreign labor contracting.
But she was required to remain in jail until a federal judge had time to review the plea deal and a pre-sentencing report.
