On April 19, 2018, U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced Mohammed Jabbateh, a former Liberian commander who had spent the last twenty years living in Pennsylvania, to thirty years  in prison (the statutory maximum) after he was found guilty in October of two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury. According to the Department of Justice press release [3], Jabbateh, who was also known as “Jungle Jabbah,” had served as a commander in the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy during Liberia’s first civil war from 1992 to 1995 and “committed various acts of shocking brutality including rapes, sexual enslavement, slave labor, murder, mutilation and ritual cannibalism.” In 1998, Jabbateh lied about his activities in Liberia while making an asylum application in the United States and did so again later while applying for permanent legal residency. This marks one of the most severe penalties ever imposed in the United States for an immigration fraud case.