A federal jury convicted a Jamaican woman Thursday of entering into a “sham marriage” with a Kansas soldier so she could get legal immigration status.
Shannakay Hunter, 28, fought back tears after the jury returned guilty verdicts for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, marriage fraud and lying to the government.Hunter, who lives in New York, faces up to five years imprisonment on each count. She is likely to get far less, if any, prison time under federal guidelines during sentencing, which has not been set.
The government contends her 2010 marriage to Joshua Priest, 23, then a private at Fort Riley, was a fake arrangement to give her a green card and him $1,500 in extra monthly benefits for married soldiers. Priest has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and wire fraud in a deal with the government for leniency in exchange for his testimony against Hunter.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson told jurors during closing arguments that the false marriage would not have been uncovered had Hunter not gone to the soldier’s military superiors in an effort to force him to attend an immigration hearing.Priest testified the couple had not met until she came to Kansas to get married and that they never had sex or lived together. Anderson cited testimony from several witnesses who said Priest and Hunter both told them the marriage was a sham.
Defense attorney Molly McMurray attacked the credibility of the government’s witnesses, especially Priest, who has admitted repeatedly lying in the past. She asked jurors not to make her client a convicted felon on his word.
Hunter did not take the stand. The only defense witness called was an advocate for domestic abuse victims who helped Hunter after an altercation with Priest over some immigration paperwork.
McMurray pointed to the more than 250 phone calls between the couple over five months as proof of their relationship, while the government discounted them by arguing Hunter was constantly calling Priest to live up to his part of the deal.
“We are talking David versus Goliath,” McMurray said. “All the resources of the U.S. attorney’s office, all the resources of the Department of Homeland Security stacked against Shannakay and her court-appointed attorney.”

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Yohan Blake ‘insulted’ by $40,000 offer from British promoter to race at Birmingham Grand Prix
The manager of triple Olympic medallist Yohan Blake has accused UK Athletics promoter Ian Stewart of making an “insulting” offer for his sprinter to compete in Sunday’s Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix and of being interested only in providing a platform for double Olympic champion Mo Farah.

Truce: Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt will not race against each other at this year’s remaining Diamond League meets Photo: REUTERS
By Simon Hart, in Lausanne7:14PM BST 22 Aug 20129 Comments
Cubie Seegobin said he was taken aback by an email sent to him by Stewart on the final day of the London Olympics offering the Jamaican world champion $40,000 (£25,000) to compete in Birmingham. He said there had been no prior discussion and it “didn’t come close” to the athlete’s true worth.
The offer was rejected and, instead, Blake has accepted invitations to compete in Thursday’s Diamond League meet in Lausanne and the Daimond League meetings in Zurich on Aug 29 and Brussels on Sept 7. As the world’s second fastest sprinter behind Bolt, Blake is believed to be commanding appearance fees of $150,000 – half of what Bolt earns per meeting.
“There’s an arrogance about these meets in England,” said Seegobin. “There’s something wrong. The attitude seems to be, ‘We’ve got Mo Farah so we don’t need anyone else’. Birmingham has a big West Indian community and you would have thought they would want to see Yohan Blake or Warren Weir or some of the other Jamaicans.”
The only men’s sprint race on the Birmingham bill is the 200 metres, in which the top-ranked athlete is American Wallace Spearmon, who was fourth in the Olympic final.
Bolt is a long-term absentee from Britain’s main grand prix athletics events because, under UK tax law, he would be liable for a percentage of his entire global earnings if he competed on British soil. The law was waived for the Olympics.
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Seegobin, who also represents Weir, the Olympic 200m bronze medallist, said invitations to British meets appeared to depend on whether the agent or manager was on friendly terms with Stewart.
“This friendly stuff doesn’t work,” he said. “If you’re friends with this manager you get to have your athletes come in. If you’re not friends, you don’t get to be invited. You have to be in the boys’ club.”
Stewart was unavailable for comment but a spokesman for UK Athletics rejected the criticisms of the Birmingham meeting.
“We can’t comment on negotiations with individual athletes but we’re delighted with the quality of Sunday’s field, which has 18 Olympic gold medallists and 46 medallists,” she said.
“We also have two of the three British gold medallists and our research tells us that it is British athletes who our supporters want to see most. We could have sold out Birmingham three times over on the back of Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford.”
Thursday’s Lausanne meeting features 19 Olympic champions, including Bolt, who will also be joining Blake for the final two Diamond League meetings of the season in Zurich and Brussels.
Spectators will be denied the chance to see them go head to head, however, because they have opted to compete in separate sprint events at all three meetings. Bolt is racing in the 200m in Lausanne and Zurich while Blake is contesting the 100m at both meetings. In Brussels, they will swap round with Bolt competing in the 100m and Blake going in the 200m.
Bolt said: “I wouldn’t say we’re avoiding each other but I don’t think we really want to run against each other for the rest of the season. Also, my coach didn’t want us to run together. If we had to we would, because it’s just another competition, but the Olympic Games are already gone so it doesn’t really matter. I think next season will be more fun and you’ll see us run against each other at the end of the season.”