Married to a whole mob: Bronx mom, 39, pleads not guilty to marrying TEN men from 'red flag' countries for money ... but didn't divorce ANY of them
- Liana Barrientos married 10 men in 11 years - with six in one year alone
- Alleged scam occurred between 1999 and 2010
- Her eighth husband was deported back to Pakistan for making threats against the US in 2006 after a terrorism investigation
- The Bronx woman plead not guilty to two fraud charges Friday
- Caught after describing her 2010 nuptials as 'her first and only marriage' , sparking an investigation
- The Department of Homeland Security was 'involved' in Barrientos' case, the Bronx district attorney's office has said
A New York woman running an alleged wife-for-hire immigration scheme pleaded not guilty Friday based on charges that she married 10 men over 11 years and charged a fee for her 'services'.
One of the men 38-year-old Lianna Barrientos wed was deported back to Pakistan for making threatening statements against the United States in 2006 after an investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, it has been revealed.
Barrientos, originally from the Dominican Republican, lived with her partner and two children in the Bronx until her arrest in February, however was legally married to at least four people at the time.
In court today, prosecutors said Barrientos married men from Egypt, Bangladesh, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Pakistan, Mali and Georgia - countries that were 'red flags' for immigration, according to The New York Daily News.
At one time she was married to eight men simultaneously.
Always the bride: Liana Barrientos, 39, of the Bronx, pleaded not guilty on Friday to two felony charges of filing a false instrument, involving marriage licences
Sullen: Barrientos, seen here in Bronx Supreme Court on Friday, is accused of marrying 10 men over the course of 11 years in an apparent immigrant scam
Charged: The Bronx district attorney's office says she faces two counts of felony fraud charges
Swindle: Barrientos is accused of accepting money in at least one of the marriages, prosecutors say
All of her marriages took place in New York state, allegedly starting in 1999.
Authorities only cottoned on after she said her 2010 marriage to Salle Keita, of Mali, - the tenth time she tied the knot - was actually her first, the New York Post reported.
This launched an investigation that unraveled a totaly of ten times Barrientos has allegedly walked down the aisle.
Barrientos would spell her name differently on some marriage licenses and would file all over the state, in places including Westchester County, Mamaroneck, White Plains, Ramapo and Long Island, investigators said.
Six of the sham marriages occurred in one year, authorities allege.
The Daily News reported that it was her eighth husband, Rashid Rajput, that was deported to his home country of Pakistan following an investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
She has pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of filing a false instrument, involving marriage licences.
'This is a huge breach in security,' national security expert Manny Gomez told WABC.
'If someone could remarry 10 times without bringing it to the attention of the authorities, potentially an al-Qaeda plant could come in, marry this woman and be in this country illegally, plotting, recruiting, perhaps even executing a terrorist attack.'
Bride: Liana Barrientos, pictured, has been married ten times. Her first marriage took place in 1999, with most recent being in 2010
Barrientos' marriage took place in 1999 to Mohamed Gerbril
The bride and her grooms: This map shows Barrientos' marriages from 1999 to 2010
Barrientos' first marriage took place in 1999 to Mohamed Gerbril , followed by a 2001 marriage to Ahmed Allam, then a second 2001 marriage to Habibur Rahman, the Post reported.
According to the newspaper, Barrientos married six men in 2002 - namely Davit Koridze, Duran Goktepe, Aliaksandr Paharelau , Vakhtang Dzneladze, Rashid Rajput, and Kakhaber Khorbaladze - and her last marriage was in 2010 to Salle Keita.
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Authorities reportedly slapped her with offering a false instrument for filing felony charges in November 2014.
Quoting court documents, The New York Daily News said '[Barrientos] ... stated in sum and substance that she did marry Mr. Keita and that was her first and only marriage.'
The newspaper reported that Barrientos could be sentenced to a total of eight years stemming from her two charges.
Barrientos has been arrested multiple times, including for loitering, drug possession, and jumping a turnstile and trespassing, according to the Daily News.
Mystery: The Department of Homeland Security was 'involved' in Barrientos' case, the Bronx district attorney's office told the New York Times
According to the New York Times, '[Barrientos] has divorced at least four times, from husbands Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 7, but long after marrying husbands 3 through 9.'
The Times reported that for her first three 2002 marriages, Barrientos wed Koridze on Valentine's Day, before she went on to marry Goktepe approximately two weeks later, then soon tied the knot with Paharelau .
The Department of Homeland Security was 'involved' in Barrientos' case, the Bronx district attorney's office revealed to the Times.
Barrientos' Facebook profile says she hails from the Dominican Republic and lives in Manhattan. It also says she became engaged in July 2013.
Wedding bells? Barrientos' Facebook says she became engaged in July 2013
A Bronx building superintendent, Ruben George, told the New York Post 'She was arrested... and [her baby daddy Carlos Garcia] doesn't want her back.
'They have a kid together. She has one with him and one with somebody else.'
George also told the newspaper Garcia booted Barrientos out of his apartment.
According to the Post, Barrientos and Garcia are parents to a baby girl.
Barrientos did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Daily Mail Online.
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