Employer: Ex-Servant Using Trial to Get US Status

A woman accused of keeping an illegal immigrant as a servant at her upstate New York mansion says the housekeeper has become a prosecution witness in an effort to get legal status to remain in the United States. But prosecutors say the woman, who faces a federal felony, kept her emigre servant overworked, underpaid and essentially captive for several years. Both sides agree the housekeeper, identified in court papers only as V.M., a middle-aged widow from India, worked for Annie...Full Story