IAG Officials Sentenced

Publication date: 11 August 2017

August 11, 2017

The three defendants from International Adoption Guides were sentenced yesterday: Mary Mooney got 18 months in prison. James Harding got 12 months in prison. Alisa Bivens got probation. All had pled guilty to the charges of fraud, bribery, and corruption brought against them by the US Justice department; the crimes all involved Ethiopian adoptions. Many families, in the US and in Ethiopia, were harmed by IAG.

In addition, the three defendants have been ordered to pay restitution. The court will be contacting the victims individually with the restitution calculations.

The three were sentenced yesterday by Judge David Norton in South Carolina district court. It is unclear when Mooney and Harding will begin their prison terms.