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http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1463022.html

A Redondo Beach man from Tunisia pleaded guilty Monday to charges he paid his 6-foot, 3-inch, 300-pound, football-playing bride $200 a month to marry him -- plus $400 on their wedding day -- so he could stay in the United States. An affidavit filed in federal court revealed the couple married in Las Vegas, never consummated the marriage and never lived together. And, the affidavit said, his defensive line-playing wife wasn't even interested in men.

"This has to be one of the most mind-bending cases of marriage fraud we've ever seen," said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Mohamed Salah Ben Ahmed Ben Meftah Hrizi, 38, a one-time Tunisian high school teacher, initially was arrested in September 2002 when he overstayed his visa. A short time later, he married Unique Livera Mc- Kinney, a player for the Los Angeles Amazons female football team based in Pasadena. Investigators say it was a sham designed to exploit the U.S. immigration system.

"If you commit marriage fraud and get caught, there is not going to be a honeymoon," said Loraine Brown, special agent-in-charge of ICE investigations in Los Angeles.

According to the 32-page complaint filed against Hrizi, Hrizi entered the United States in July 2000 on a tourist visa that allowed him to stay until December 2001. But in December 2002, after Hrizi had been charged with violating his immigration status and faced deportation, the couple filed documents saying they had married in Las Vegas a month earlier and asking that he receive permanent alien status.

ICE investigators began looking into his marriage and found that no one at the Redondo Beach apartment building had ever seen his wife, an imposing woman who towered over the 5-foot-7-inch, 165-pound Hrizi in their wedding photo.

McKinney, a popular player on the Los Angeles team of the Women's Professional Football League, was a considerable presence in the league until she dropped out. The Amazons play at Bassett High School in La Puente.

"Everybody saw her as the giant of the whole league and the most talented football player they've ever seen," said Damian Jurado, the team's defensive coordinator. "She is just amazing. She had the strength, speed, size. Everybody who played against her was afraid of her.

"She would have been a role model for all of America."

Attempts to contact McKinney were unsuccessful. Court documents said she lives with a girlfriend in Compton.

:lol

 

[Property of Jumpship]

Wow. I cant tell the men from the women.

 

[whytemyke]

shit. anyone know a good lawyer?

 

[Naked Snake]

:lol indeed

 

[Cloudy]

You'd think she'd be the one paying someone to marry her :lol

 

[Pedigree Chum]

Mohamed Salah Ben Ahmed Ben Meftah Hrizi

I'm muslim, and that's the longest, funniest muslim name I've ever seen :lol

 

[Deleted member 4784]

The sad part is that for every 1 person caught, there are 500 or something who get away with it.

My sister works as an RN where I live and she was telling me how she overheard two nurses with a patient. The patient was Hispanic and didn't speak a word of English, so the head RN was having a Spanish-speaking nurse translate for her. She told the man that even though he was illegal and being sent back to Mexico, that if he could find somebody to marry before then, he could stay in the US and have Medicare or Medicaid pay for his surgery.

Bush is wrong about social security. What's in trouble is our medical system and shit like this isn't exactly helping matters.

 

[Ned Flanders]

Is the guy in the beanie that bug-eyed weirdo from the Stern show?

 

[Guzim]

:lol :lol :lol

Oh wow.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

This is racism and gender discrimination. The whole system is full of abuse, but as long as the woman is pretty and puts out, a sham marriage is OK with the government.

 

[kablooey]

:lol :lol :lol I needed that.

 

[onion_pixy]

Unique Livera Mc- Kinney, a player for the Los Angeles Amazons female football team based in Pasadena

Holy shit Im terrified!! I live in Pasadena! There's a all womens foo ball team here? With chicks who look like that? OMG Im freaking scared now. Im a somewhat tomboyish girl. I dont want to get hit on! Eeeeek Run aawayyyyy

 

[iapetus]

Holy shit Im terrified!! I live in Pasadena! There's a all womens foo ball team here? With chicks who look like that? OMG Im freaking scared now. Im a somewhat tomboyish girl. I dont want to get hit on! Eeeeek Run aawayyyyy

It's alright. As long as you marry an illegal immigrant you'll be safe from the football players.

 

[dskillzhtown]

"...and with the 13th pick in the NFL draft, the Houston Texans select..."

 

[WasabiKing]

UNIQUE is right...

 

[The Faceless Master]

hahah, i've actually had a couple of hot chicks offer to pay me to marry me so they can get citizenship...

i haven't even considered going thru with it, but i can see why some people would, the going rate in nyc is like 8K!!!!

 

[Firest0rm]

I'm muslim, and that's the longest, funniest muslim name I've ever seen :lol

Well the Ben's are not supposed to be there because they just mean the son of, but it always gets translated along with the name. Basicly his first name is Mohamed Salah, and his last name is Hrizi. The stuff in the middle is the name of his father and grandfather. I'm sure you know that though.

 

[RaymondCarver]

I feel compelled to say nothing negative about these people's apperence. Sham marriage, on the other hand, is discraceful.

 

[Lambtron]

Meanwhile my significant other gets harassed at the border every time she comes to visit me. ahahahaha.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

Well the Ben's are not supposed to be there because they just mean the son of, but it always gets translated along with the name. Basicly his first name is Mohamed Salah, and his last name is Hrizi. The stuff in the middle is the name of his father and grandfather. I'm sure you know that though.

Yeah, but it just makes it looks so much cooler when it's all included.

 

[Blackace]

Attempts to contact McKinney were unsuccessful. Court documents said she lives with a girlfriend in Compton.

even gangstas don't mess with her...because she will eat them!

 

[Deleted member 1235]

but i can see why some people would, the going rate in nyc is like 8K!!!!

are you allowed to, y'know, touch em and stuff?