{"id":23738,"date":"2026-09-11T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23738"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:19:19","slug":"pakistani-woman-sentenced-to-over-six-years-for-64-million-us-government-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23738","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani woman sentenced to over six years for $64 million US government fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: A Pakistani woman has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison in a $64 million fraud case involving the US government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A female federal judge in New York sentenced Zakia Khan and also ordered her to pay $56 million.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have also seized $5 million worth of her assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Khan operated a daycare centre for elderly people and fraudulently obtained payments from the US government through the facility.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested in 2024 and later admitted to the offence during court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>A federal court in New York handed down the sentence on Wednesday, ordering Khan to serve six years and four months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: A Pakistani woman has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison in a $64 million fraud case involving the US government. A female federal judge in New York sentenced Zakia Khan and also ordered her to pay $56 million. Authorities have also seized $5 million worth of her assets. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[2419,1562,13609,2493,8937,13608],"class_list":["post-23738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-fraud","tag-new-york","tag-pakistani-woman","tag-united-states","tag-us-government","tag-zakia-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23740,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738\/revisions\/23740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}