Federal immigration authorities were reported today to be investigating the case of a Westport artist who was convicted on a variety of state and Federal charges growing out of a two-year anti-Semitic mail campaign.
The artist, Alan F. P. Moyler of West Redding, a British subject, pleaded guilty to the charges in district and Federal courts and was sentenced to fines totaling $700 and placed on three years’ probation. Jail terms totaling 210 days were suspended.
William J. Kennedy, Deputy District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that an investigation for possible deportation of Moyler was underway since he is a China-born British national who entered the United States in 1952. He never acquired American citizenship. Some of the victims received dead rats and bats in Moyler’s mailings.
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