ATLANTA, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
AUGUSTA, Georgia: A Pakistani man living in Decatur has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to a wire fraud scheme.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen and announced by Margaret E. "Meg" Heap, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
Javed Ashiq, 52, of Decatur, Georgia, was sentenced to 168 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $886,799.84 after pleading guilty to Wire Fraud Conspiracy. Ashiq will be processed for deportation upon completio...