Valsamma Mathai: Mathai

Annie George Dept: Annie George repeated her earlier testimony that she didn't know Valsamma Mathai was in the United States illegally and that she didn't mistreat Mathai during the 5 1/2 years she worked in her mansion in central New York state, according to Montreal Gazette. A federal jury in Albany went home shortly after 5 p.m., about three hours after it got the case, and was scheduled to resume deliberations Friday morning and aLBANY, N.Y. - A woman accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and keeping her a virtual prisoner at a mansion testified Thursday that a tape recording that appears to show she knew the woman was in the country illegally was not her voice. Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.