A public defender will represent Omega Penalosa Paulite, who allegedly was an accomplice of former Rep. Nathan Cooper, R. Cape-Girardeau, in an immigration fraud scheme.
Judge Frederick Buckles, in a decision issued Friday in U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, ordered the public defender, saying Ms. Paulite had "established the inability to retain private counsel."
Cooper pleaded guilty, will be sentenced in October, and resigned his seat in the Missouri House.
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