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Woodbridge MD Loses License After Exploiting Undocumented Workers, Faces Federal Prison: AG Woodbridge MD Loses License After Exploiting Undocumented Workers, Faces Federal Prison: AG
Woodbridge MD Loses License After Exploiting Undocumented Workers, Faces Federal Prison: AG A New Jersey doctor headed to prison who refused to let a woman she employed for lw wages get treated for a brain aneurysm had her medical license revoked, authorities announced this week. Dr. Harsha Sahni, a rheumatologist based in Middlesex County, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to illegally recruit, conceal, and harbor two women from India to be household servants for low pay, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. Sahni, who practiced in Colonia, admitted in her guilty plea that she knew the women were in the country illegally and that…

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'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced 'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced
'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced A doctor from Tinton Falls will spend time in prison for the abusive exploitation of two undocumented women from India, including denying one woman lifesaving surgery for a brain aneurysm, authorities said. Harsha Sahni, 68, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 28 to two years and three months in prison, New Jersey's U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said in a news release. The former rheumatologist with a practice in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conceal and harbor aliens and filing a false tax return. According to cour…

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by Chris Spiker