California
Courts: Investigators allege she sold Hungarian infants. Irvine resident says she is innocent.
June 22, 1996
Smuggling and tax evasion counts are similar to those dropped in 1996. Lawyer says Marianne Gati ran legal adoption agency.
April 25, 2001
Courts: Earlier count is dismissed. New complaint says Marianne Gati did not pay taxes on alleged baby-selling operation.
July 4, 1996
Unable to have children of their own, Kathy Stasiowski and her husband placed their names on a list of prospective adoptive parents and waited for two years without success.
June 30, 1996
An Irvine couple have been indicted on three counts of filing false income tax returns related to their adoption business, which was allegedly involved in an international baby-selling operation, officials announced Thursday.
July 19, 1996
Federal agents have frozen more than $400,000 in a bank account held by an Irvine resident accused of running an international baby-selling operation.
June 27, 1996
Decision: Tax evasion charges are withdrawn against an Irvine woman suspected of bringing women over from Hungary to sell their infants.
Oct. 5, 1996
Handing prosecutors a crippling setback, a federal judge ruled Friday they could not use crucial evidence against an Irvine woman who allegedly brought as many as 30 pregnant women here from Hungary to help sell their babies to California couples.
Sept. 21, 1996
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by prosecutors to keep behind bars an Irvine woman suspected of running an international baby-selling ring out of her home.
July 12, 1996
An Irvine couple will plead guilty to wire fraud and a tax charge in a case that began in 1996 as an investigation into alleged illegal adoptions.
Jan. 24, 2003