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Justice Department STRIPS citizenship from female migrant who helped run DISTURBING business

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A woman from Moldova has been stripped of her citizenship after she was discovered to have been involved a business that sexually exploited children. Tatiana Power gained her U.S. citizenship through the naturalization process but was later convicted of crimes related to a child modeling business. Power was one of six people who were charged with crimes related to the case, but two of those have died. Power had been the bookkeeper for Newstar Websites, which recruited children under the guise of modeling, but instead the children were made to engage in sexual conduct for images and videos. The organization had targeted Moldovan, Ukrainian, and other Eastern European children and then sold the child sex images and videos to customers in more than a hundred countries. Prosecutors said they produced about 4.6 million videos and images, including children as young as 6 years old. Some of the children were made to wear transparent underwear, pantyhose and miniskirts, or dress up in cheerlea