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USCG Ho Chi Minh: Former Visa Chief Faces Charges of Conspiracy to Commit...
This is not the kind of news you want to end the week, but here it is. The former NIV Chief of USCG Ho Chi Minh City Michael T. Sestak is facing charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and …...
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Sestak Criminal Complaint Details Alleged Visa For Dollars Scheme: Refusal...
— By Domani Spero McClatchy’s Michael Doyle reported last week about Foreign Service officer Michael T. Sestak who faces charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and bribery in an alleged...
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USDOJ: FSO Michael Todd Sestak Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud and...
We have blogged previously about this case: “Conservative Estimate” of Proceeds from Alleged Visas for Sale Scheme “At Least $10 Million” Sestak Criminal Complaint Details Alleged Visa For Dollars...
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Michael Sestak Visa Scandal: USG to seek forfeiture money judgment of at...
– By Domani Spero This is an update of the Sestak Visa Scandal that’s winding its way through the court system. The publicly available Superseding Indictment posted on July 9, 2013 now includes the...
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Jilted Lover Reportedly Helped Exposed Sestak Visa Scandal – There’s a Hole...
– By Domani Spero Thanh Nien Daily continues to cover the Michael Sestak case in Vietnam. A recent update details how a jilted lover, referred to as “Lan” reportedly the anonymous source in the...
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State/OIG: Organized Fraud Rings “Have Taken Control” of the Green Card...
- By Domani Spero – and the Bureau of Consular Affairs needs a program “to address widespread diversity visa fraud!” If about 80% of the cases are questionable and that’s just from the western part of...
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FSO Michael T. Sestak Pleads Guilty in Visa Fraud-Bribery Case, Faces 19-24...
– Domani Spero On November 6, USDOJ announced that Michael T. Sestak, the former Nonimmigrant Visa Section Chief at the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City had pleaded guilty to “receiving more...
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U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Indian Diplomat Devyani Khobragade (See Documents)
– Domani Spero On January 9, a U.S. Grandy Jury indicted Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud (count one) and for false statements (count two). The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern...
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Michael T. Sestak Visa Scandal: Two Co-Conspirators Sentenced to 10 Months...
– Domani Spero On November 6, 2013, USDOJ announced that Michael T. Sestak, the former Nonimmigrant Visa Section Chief at the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City had pleaded guilty to “receiving...
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US Embassy Yemen: How to Catch the Visa Malfeasance Pokemons? Very Quietly.
– Domani Spero I’m lost for words. | #Yemen : US Embassy employee issued fake visas for Yemenis to attend Texas oil conference. http://t.co/LW7aDNTVNY — هيكل بافنع (@BaFana3) November 24, 2014...
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Binh Tang Vo Gets 8 Years For Conspiring With Former U.S. Consulate Official...
Posted: 3:42 pm EDT We have previously blogged about the Sestak visa scheme in this blog (see Michael T. Sestak Visa Scandal: Two Co-Conspirators Sentenced to 10 Months and 16 Months; FSO Michael T....
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The Purposeful and Targeted Cultivation of a Relationship with a Consular...
Posted: 1:04 am EDT Former FSO Michael T. Sestak was arrested in Thailand on May 7, 2013. He was initially arraigned on September 13, 2013 and pled guilty on November 6, 2013. He is scheduled to be...
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Visa Fraudsters Who Recruited H-1B workers For the “Bench” Get 87 Months in...
Posted: 3:35 am ET Via DOJ/Northern District of Texas: Atul and Jay Nanda Used Their Corporation, Dibon Solutions in Carrollton, Texas, to Commit Fraud Through H-1B Visa Program to Create a Low-Cost...
View ArticleUSG Charges Two Individuals For Visa Fraud Conspiracy Involving the Moroccan...
On March 13, SDNY announced that two individuals were charged for visa fraud conspiracy involving the Moroccan Consulate and Mission in New York. The complaint includes an individual not named as a...
View ArticleUSDOJ: Armenian Citizen Pleads Guilty for His Role in For-Profit U.S. Visa...
Via USDOJ: Armenian Citizen Pleads Guilty for His Role in For-Profit U.S. Visa Fraud Scheme A man residing in Glendale, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to unlawfully bring in aliens...
View ArticleIndictments For Alleged Large-Scale Visa Fraud Employment Scheme
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View ArticleUSDOJ: FL Executives Plead Guilty to Large-Scale Visa Fraud Employment Scheme
Via USDOJ: Two Florida business executives pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Georgia to charges related to their roles in a scheme to recruit and hire foreign nationals who were not...
View ArticleAdoption Agency Manager Pleads Guilty in Uganda and Poland Adoption...
Via USDOJ: Texas Woman Pleads Guilty to Schemes to Procure Adoptions from Uganda and Poland through Bribery and Fraud A Texas woman who was a program manager at an Ohio-based international adoption...
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