This was a federal arrest.
I don’t think a case of underpaying a nunny may pass beyond a civil dispute even in Red China.
They also had her on a charge of causing a false visa application to be filed for the nanny (it said she would be paid $4500 per month, when the actual arrangement was 30,000 rupees ($573 at the time)). But you are right. You do not arrest and strip-search diplomats. You expel them. To do otherwise is to expose US diplomats abroad to trumped up prosecution.
>>>I don’t think a case of underpaying a nunny may pass beyond a civil dispute even in Red China.
They also had her on a charge of causing a false visa application to be filed for the nanny (it said she would be paid $4500 per month, when the actual arrangement was 30,000 rupees ($573 at the time)). But you are right. You do not arrest and strip-search diplomats. You expel them. To do otherwise is to expose US diplomats abroad to trumped up prosecution.<<<
Something might be really wrong if one has to lie in a visa application about diplomat stuff’s salary to get her visa. Blame the regulations again. $573 is a huge salary for a trained engineer, let alone a nunny in India, and not even a bank CEO made $4,500 a month just ten years ago there. Anyway, Indian diplomat’s nunny is supposed to live off the household, I have no idea how is her salary a government business.