{"id":131391,"date":"2026-03-06T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:13:08","slug":"illegal-immigrant-charged-with-voting-in-pennsylvanias-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131391\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrant charged with voting in Pennsylvania\u2019s 2024 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM)\u2013 An illegal immigrant living in Pennsylvania was charged with voting in the 2024 federal election, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The DOJ said Mahady Sacko, 50, of Philadelphia, was arrested and charged with \u201cfraudulent voting in the 2024 federal election by an illegal alien.\u201d Sacko allegedly voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office, falsely representing that he was a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sack is an illegal immigrant who was ordered deported in 2000, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He will be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison if he is convicted, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FBI investigated the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM)\u2013 An illegal immigrant living in Pennsylvania was charged with voting in the 2024 federal election, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61001,44774,58729,12966,61000,28,30,29,11424,1824,6651],"class_list":["post-131391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2024-federal-election","tag-federal-office","tag-illegal-alien","tag-illegal-immigrant","tag-mahady-sacko","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-voting","tag-whtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}