A California man at the center of a birth tourism scheme that charged pregnant Chinese women top dollar was sentenced to more than three years in prison.
A Southern California man was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison for operating a 'birth tourism' scheme where affluent pregnant Chinese women paid thousands of dollars to travel and give birth in the United States, so the infants could obtain American citizenship, authorities said Monday. A federal judge sentenced Michael Wei Yueh Liu, 59, of Rancho Cucamonga, just east of Los Angeles, following a four-day trial, the Justice Department said.
To accommodate the women, Liu and Dong leased apartments in Orange and San Bernardino counties to the women under names of people who were not going to occupy the units, authorities said. Over the course of the scheme, the pair made several million dollars, prosecutors said.
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