{"id":287577,"date":"2026-09-16T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:40:10","slug":"lehigh-county-woman-pleads-guilty-to-illegal-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287577\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County woman pleads guilty to illegal voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Emmaus woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally voting in the 2024 general election, according to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Miller, 37, a Philippine citizen lawfully living in the country, pleaded guilty before U.S. Judge Scott M. Reid, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. attorney\u2019s office didn\u2019t give any indication of who Miller voted for.<\/p>\n<p>Under both federal and state law, only U.S. citizens may vote in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 16 and faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison, one year of supervised release, a $100,000 fine and a $25 special assessment.<\/p>\n<p>This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Emmaus woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally voting in the 2024 general election, according to the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,3151,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-287577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-emmaus","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287577","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=287577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}