US Hits Uganda Adoption Ring with Criminal Charges, Sanctions
US Department of Justice has
filed money-laundering and fraud charges against two Americans and a Ugandan
lawyer for running a fake adoption ring with Ugandan children who were not
orphans
The US
government filed criminal charges and economic sanctions Monday against an
adoption ring that placed Ugandan children who were not orphans with families
in the United States.
The US
Justice department filed multiple fraud and money laundering charges against
two Americans, Margaret Cole and Debra Parris, and a Ugandan lawyer, Dorah
Mirembe, for conspiring to corruptly procure the children and transfer them to
American adoptive parents, making hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
process.
Mirembe's
law firm allegedly "manipulated" the parents of "vulnerable
families" in the Ugandan cou...