LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – A millionaire couple covicted in what has been termed a modern slavery case, could lose their mansion, among other things.
Associated Prerss reports that a judge cleared a U.S. courtroom when a jury convicted the couple after the woman fainted, along with one of her daughters.
The judge said he would ask jurors to return to court Tuesday, when the couple could learn whether they will be ordered to pay monetary damages.
The government also could seize their mansion, where they kept two Indonesian women as housekeepers, as prosecutors had requested, according to Tuesday editions of Newsday and the Daily News.
Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, who is also from Indonesia, collapsed into the chest of her Indian-born husband, Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, after a jury found them guilty Monday of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
Moments later, one of their daughters fainted while sitting in the front row in the courtroom gallery. Soon after, her mother went to comfort her, and she also fainted. Both women were taken to an area hospital, prompting the judge to postpone the remaining court proceedings. The mother and daughter were released from the hospital emergency room later Monday.
