Ruling Opens Cooke’s Widow to Deportation
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WASHINGTON — Immigration authorities can resume deportation proceedings against Jack Kent Cooke’s widow, who pleaded guilty 11 years ago to a drug charge, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals rejected a judge’s order blocking immigration authorities from deporting Marlena Ramallo Chalmers Cooke, a Bolivian native who married the owner of the Washington Redskins for the second time in July 1995.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has sought to deport Cooke since she pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to import cocaine. She served 5 1/2 months in prison.
Thirteen weeks before her multimillionaire husband died on April 6, she was cut from his will, even forbidden to take books from their home library.
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