Robert Richman: Plea Agreement and American Prosecutors

robert richman: She faces a maximum of five years in a US federal prison and a A 369,000 US 250,000 fine after signing a plea agreement with American prosecutors, but her lawyer will ask for a time-served sentence, according to The Guardian. Her attorney, Robert Richman, said she accepted the plea agreement because she wanted to accept responsibility and be sentenced . Ghodskani arrived in the US last month. She gave birth to a boy in custody in Adelaide, South Australia, while fighting extradition to the United States. Richman said the long legal fight had taken its toll so she had decided to stop resisting extradition. Iranian woman in Australian jail drawn into Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic dispute Read more Ghodskani was based in Tehran as an employee of Fana Moj, a communications company whose principal customer was the Iran government's Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting radio and TV network. The parties have not reached an agreement as to a recommended sentence, and each party is free to argue for any sentence it deems appropriate, the plea agreement filed in the US district court on Friday said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.