{"id":198048,"date":"2007-12-19T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/19\/long-island-couple-found-guilty-of-slavery\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:12:00","slug":"long-island-couple-found-guilty-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/19\/long-island-couple-found-guilty-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Couple Found Guilty of Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2007\/12\/18\/2007-12-18_li_slave_couple_found_guilty.html\">face up to 40 years in Federal prison<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/crime\/ny-bzslav1218,0,516229.story\">the jury has decided that their $2 million dollar house was used in the commissiion of a crime and so forfeited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As horrific as the testimony given in the case was, a landscaper testified that the women begged for food, these high profile cases involving domestic servants are really the small minority of the cases.<\/p>\n<p>Most are larger scale, involving sweatshops and prostitution, and they are far more appalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They face up to 40 years in Federal prison, and the jury has decided that their $2 million dollar house was used in the commissiion of a crime and so forfeited. As horrific as the testimony given in the case was, a landscaper testified that the women begged for food, these high profile cases involving &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}