Is DHS Busting Fake University Students Hacking Pipelines?

Are these hackers?

Did they pay to get into the U.S. to run fake ass mortgage schemes?

Oh, the possibilities.

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ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan

ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university in Farmington Hills set up by ICE to lure in students.

About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months.

A total of about 250 students have now been arrested since January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a sting operation by federal agents who enticed foreign-born students, mostly from India, to attend the school that marketed itself as offering graduate programs in technology and computer studies, according to ICE officials.

Many of those arrested have been deported to India while others are contesting their removals. One has been allowed to stay after being granted lawful permanent resident status by an immigration judge.

This is the building at 30500 Northwestern Hwy. in Farmington Hills south of 13 Mile Rd. that was used as the fake University of Farmington campus created by the Department of Homeland Security as part of a sting operation targeting foreign students, seen on Thursday, February 7, 2019, in Farmington Hills. (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)

The students had arrived legally in the U.S. on student visas, but since the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents, they lost their immigration status after it was shut down in January. The school was located on Northwestern Highway near 13 Mile Road in Farmington Hills and staffed with undercover agents posing as university officials. 

Out of the approximately 250 students arrested on administrative charges, "nearly 80% were granted voluntary departure and departed the United States," the Detroit office of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) told the Free Press in a statement Tuesday.

Out of the remaining 20%, about half of them have received a final order of removal; some of them were ordered removed by an immigration judge, and others "were given an expedited removal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection," said HSI Detroit.

['It was a pleasure speaking with you': Emails reveal how university portrayed itself to potential students. Read more here.]

The remaining 10% "have either filed for some sort of relief or are contesting their removals with Executive Office for Immigration Review," said HSI Detroit. 

ICE said in March that 161 students had been arrested, which has now increased to about 250; the 250 arrests took place from January to July, said an ICE spokesperson.

Meanwhile, seven of the eight recruiters who were criminally charged for trying to recruit students have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Detroit, including Prem Rampeesa, 27, last week. The remaining one is to be sentenced in January.

Attorneys for the students arrested said they were unfairly trapped by the U.S. government since the Department of Homeland Security had said on its website that the university was legitimate. An accreditation agency that was working with the U.S. on its sting operation also listed the university as legitimate.

More: ICE arrests more students at fake university, others being removed from US

More: Attorney: Fake Farmington university sting by ICE was entrapment

There were more than 600 students enrolled at the university, which was created a few years ago by federal law enforcement officials with ICE. Records filed with the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) show that the University of Farmington was incorporated in January 2016.

Many of the students had enrolled with the university through a program known as Curricular Practical Training (CPT), which allows students to work in the U.S through a F-1 visa program for foreign students. Some had transferred to the University of Farmington from other schools that had lost accreditation, which means they would no longer be in immigration status and allowed to remain in the U.S.

Emails obtained by the Free Press earlier this year showed how the fake university attracted students to the university, which cost about $12,000 on average in tuition and fees per year. 

The U.S. "trapped the vulnerable people who just wanted to maintain (legal immigration) status," Rahul Reddy, a Texas attorney who represented or advised some of the students arrested, told the Free Press this week. "They preyed upon on them."

 The fake university is believed to have collected millions of dollars from the unsuspecting students. An email from the university's president, named Ali Milani, told students that graduate programs' tuition is $2,500 per quarter and the average cost is $1,000 per month.

"They made a lot of money," Reddy said of the U.S. government.

Reddy said that two of the students who were sent back to India through a voluntary departure agreement with ICE were denied entry into the U.S. after they tried to reenter this year.

University of Farmington office in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Photo taken in 2017. (Photo: Matt Friedman/Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications)

No one has filed a lawsuit or claim against the U.S. government for collecting the money or for allegedly entrapping the students.

Attorneys for ICE and the Department of Justice maintain that the students should have known it was not a legitimate university because it did not have classes in a physical location. Some CPT programs have classes combined with work programs at companies. 

"Their true intent could not be clearer," Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Helms wrote in a sentencing memo this month for Rampeesa, one of the eight recruiters, of the hundreds of students enrolled. "While 'enrolled' at the University, one hundred percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the University would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes, or educational services."

In the memo, federal prosecutor Baker said the case raises questions about the U.S. "foreign-student visa program."

Baker wrote that "immigration and visa programs have been hot-button topics in the United States for years and national scrutiny has only been increasing. Fairly or unfairly, Rampeesa’s conduct casts a shadow on the foreign-student visa program in general, and it raises questions as to whether the potential for abuse threatens to outweigh the benefits."

Reddy said, though, that in some cases, students who transferred out from the University of Farmington after realizing they didn't have classes on-site, were still arrested.

Admissions section of the website of the University of Farmington, a fake university created by ICE and Dept. of Homeland Security. It reads: "We are very excited about welcoming you to the UF community and helping you" (Photo: Department of Homeland Security)

Rampeesa was sentenced Nov, 19 to one year in prison by Judge Gershwin Drain of U.S. District Court in Detroit. With time already served of 295 days, he should be out in about two to three months, and will then be deported to India, said his attorney Wanda Cal. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harbor aliens for profit.

Detroit ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls said the other recruiters sentenced so far are Barath Kakireddy, 29, of Lake Mary, Florida, 18 months; Suresh Kandala, 31, of Culpeper, Virginia, 18 months; Santosh Sama, 28, of Fremont, California, 24 months; Avinash Thakkallapally, 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 15 months; Aswanth Nune, 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, 12 months; Naveen Prathipati, 26, of Dallas, Texas, 12 months.

Phanideep Karnati, 35, of Louisville, Kentucky, is to be sentenced in January.

In court, Rampeesa's attorney, Cal, said his client had no criminal record and came from a rural background in India. 

He was trying to "help his family back home," Cal said before Judge Drain. "My client is very remorseful. He is really a good person caught up in a bad situation."

Rampeesa arrived in the U.S. legally a few years ago on a student visa and earned in 2016 a master's degree in computer science at Northwestern Polytechnic University. But the university later lost its accreditation, which put his immigration status in jeopardy. He had spent $40,000 in tuition and fees for his studies at the university.

"He was desperate to find a way to stay in the United States," Rampeesa's attorney, Cal, wrote in his sentencing memo. He wanted to get a Ph.D. in computer science, she said.

Rampeesa then met Sama, who recruited him to attend the University of Farmington and told him he could get tuition credits if he recruited other students, Cal said.

Sama and Rampeesa were working with people they thought were university officials, but were actually undercover agents for the Department of Homeland Security.

"My client has no other criminal history, not even a traffic ticket," Cal said in court last week. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Baker said in court that Rampeesa was "aware it was completely fake," that "it was just for maintaining status."

"He chose the University of Farmington for a reason," Baker said of Rampeesa. 

In calling for a sentence of 24 to 30 months, Baker said: "It's important to send a message ... this type of crime will not be tolerated."

Accompanying Baker in the court last week was Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet, who helped prosecute the case. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken offline the website of the University of Farmington, which it had created for a sting operation. The website was taken down on Jan. 31, 2019 after a federal indictment was unsealed on Jan. 30. The website for the fake university now contains a logo for the investigative unit of ICE and reads: "The University of Farmington has been closed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." (Photo: Dept. of Homeland Security)

Judge Drain sentenced him to 1 year, but he will be released in two to three months because of time served, and then deported. 

Drain said of Rampeesa: "You don't have any criminal history. ... I don't think you're a danger to the public."

Rampeesa received a shorter sentence than Sama because he was not recruiting other students for cash, but for tuition credits provided by the university, Judge Drain said.

Rampeesa wrote a letter to the court pleading for leniency that was read before the judge. A Telugu-speaking translator was at his side in court, translating the courtroom proceedings. Most of the students were from Telugu-speaking regions of India in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

He said he was trying in the U.S. after his previous university's loss of accreditation made his master's degree "worthless."

"I am ashamed," Rampeesa wrote. "I made a very bad decision" to recruit students that "bought shame to my family name."

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JUDICIARY: Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban - Update On The Religious Freedom v. Parental Rights

Good identity management of other countries and risk was the underlying focus of responses from witnesses in reference to multiple attestation in other databases like INTERPOL.

Identity management is dealing with trafficking tiny humans, like "saving the children" through domestic and international adoptions.

The "ban" on entering the U.S. is about trafficking tiny humans, but no one wants to talk about that.

This has nothing to do about religion, unless you consider the application of christian chattel law when it comes to the right of entrance, right of exit when it comes to trafficking tiny humans in the name of the latest and greatest union of international beliefs when it comes to Religious Freedom in the battle to conserve those traditional family values of weaponizing religion to take over an elected government.

The Issue

https://muslimadvocates.org/issue/religious-freedom/

Religious freedom is one of the bedrock principles upon which the United States was founded. Yet, American Muslims have increasingly faced bigotry, discrimination, and hostility to their very right to worship. Muslim Advocates works to protect American Muslims to build and maintain mosques and to worship free from discrimination.
Religious freedom is a shield to protect people from religious discrimination, not a sword to deny people their most basic rights.
Learn more about Muslim Advocates’ efforts to ensure that mosque permits are approved free from discrimination, that people in institutions can worship freely, and that the cause of religious freedom isn’t hijacked by those who seek to turn this basic principle on its head.

If you replace "Muslims" with "Christian" and "mosque" with "church" you have yourself a template a "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) for stealin' the children, land and votes.

One serious conflict of interest that has yet to be mentioned is the U.S. Commission on International Freedom was spearheaded by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who just so happens to be a really big fan of Mike Pence, and his election campaigns, and child welfare contracts.

On October 27, 2018, the International ReligiousFreedom Act (IRFA), which created the U.S.Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), reached its 20th anniversary. In the two decades since, a greater and more diverse number of actors across the globe are working to protect the fundamental freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as prescribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In fact, the U.S. Department of State’s 2018 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom became a fulcrum for change in these efforts—more foreign governments than ever before are taking action to uphold these rights in their own countries and around the world. p7

https://www.state.gov/international-religious-freedom-reports/

How come no one called State Department Sam Brownback, appropriator of the Foreign Faith Based Funding to participate?

With children come trust funds.

Trust funds have administrators.

Trust funds have benefactors.

Trust funds have trustees.

Administrators, benefactors and trustees can all be corporations.

Corporations are people, too, according to Mitt Romney.

Corporations have parental rights.

A corporate parent can acquire, transfer, procure and purvey tiny humans, where there is no way to trace the chain of command of the birth certificate to the allodial title, where the moveable chattel is tied to the land, but which land if the corporate parent is foreign?

If a child is under the legal guardianship of a foreign corporation, what is the citizenship of the child?

Children grow up to become adults where those identities can be used, over and over again, particularly when traveling for private "militia" purposes like interfering in U.S. elections and other stuff I have watered down into the tagline of "stealin' the children, land and votes.

No one wants to unravel that Gordian VISA Knot of human trafficking being lobbied advocated under the guise of propaganda, which has falsely advised Trump for the purposes of procuring faith based funding economic redevelopment contracts.

Witnesses

Panel One: 

Mr. Edward Ramotowski 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State

• Ramotowski Testimony
• Ramotowski TTF
• Ramotowski Bio

Ms. Elizabeth Neumann 
Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

• Joint DHS-CBP Testimony
• Neumann TTF
• Neumann Bio

Mr. Todd Hoffman 
Executive Director, Admissions and Passenger Programs, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

• Joint DHS-CBP Testimony
• Hoffman TTF
• Hoffman Bio

Panel Two: 

Mr. Abdollah Dehzangi 
Baltimore, MD

• Dehzangi Statement
• UMD Letter of Support - Support Document for Dr. Dehzangi
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen Letter of Support - Support Document for Dr. Dehzangi
• MSU Letter of Support - Support Document for Dr. Dehzangi
• Dehzangi TTF
• Dehzangi Bio
• Gazelle Taherzadeh CV - Support Document for Dr. Dehzangi

Mr. Ismail Ahmed Hezam Alghazali
Brooklyn, NY

• Alghazali Statement
• Alghazali TTF
• Alghazali Bio

Ms. Farhana Khera 
President and Executive Director, Muslim Advocates

• Khera Statement
• Khera TTF
• Khera Bio

The Honorable Andrew R. Arthur
Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, Center for Immigration Studies

• Arthur Statement
• Arthur TTF
• Arthur Bio

116th Congress

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DOJ: Afghanistan National and Former U.S. Military Interpreter Charged for Role in Human Smuggling Conspiracy

What about the children?

An Afghanistan citizen and United States Lawful Permanent Resident was indicted today for his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented aliens from Afghanistan to the United States. 

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito of the District of New Jersey, Special Agent in Charge Anthony Salisbury of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami, and Special Agent in Charge Brian Michael of HSI Newark, made the announcement.

Mujeeb Rahman Saify, 32, is an Afghanistan national who received a Special Immigrant Visa and became a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident in 2009, after serving as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.  Since 2009, Saify has resided in New York and Newark.  Saify was charged in the District of New Jersey with conspiracy to smuggle aliens to the United States, encouraging and inducing alien smuggling, and attempting to bring aliens to the United States. 

According to the indictment, between July 2016 through January 2017, Saify conspired with members of an Afghanistan and Pakistan-based smuggling network to smuggle two Afghanistan nationals to the United States.  The Afghanistan nationals did not have prior authorization to enter the United States and one had been denied a U.S. visa.  The indictment alleges that Saify made contact with the aliens and arranged meetings with the co-conspirators to discuss smuggling arrangements.  Further, according to the indictment, Saify received payment, gave instructions to the aliens to facilitate the smuggling venture, and he used email and phone communications to facilitate and coordinate the criminal operation.  

The case is being investigated by HSI Miami, with valuable assistance provided by HSI Newark and HSI’s Human Smuggling Unit and Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Identities, Targeting, and Exploitation Center (HITEC). The investigation is being conducted under the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel Strike Force (ECT) program, a joint partnership between the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and HSI.  The ECT program focuses on human smuggling networks that may present particular national security or public safety risks, or present grave humanitarian concerns.  ECT has dedicated investigative, intelligence and prosecutorial resources.  ECT coordinates and receives assistance from other U.S. government agencies and foreign law enforcement authorities.

This case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Jay Bauer of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Senior Trial Counsel Margaret Ann Mahoney of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey. 

An indictment is merely a formal accusation.  Defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

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JUDICIARY: Markup of: H.R. 2820, the “Dream Act of 2019”; H.R. 2821, the “American Promise Act of 2019”; and H.R. 549, the “Venezuela TPS Act of 2019”.

Not one mention of parental rights when it comes to citizenship.

They debate and orate between the merits of the word "shall" yet never mention the children.

There are many, many other ways for individuals to openly enter our country, where many are quite hospitable like coming in a a child servant, a child bride or adoption.

As a matter of fact, children who have no citizenship through judicial determination in the legal severance of parental rights, are placed under the jurisdiction of the States, under someone like the Superintendent of the Michigan Children's Institute, who then contracts out to foreign, private corporations, who file legal guardianship over the children who were wards of the state, but now wards who have been spirited away on UCC Public Private Partner-Ships to their foreign lands to be deposited in their own children's trusts.

Here are some things these "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) can legally masticate:

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

If a State Court terminates parental rights, what is the nationality of the child now under the legal guardianship of a foreign corporation?

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

These people are absolutely clueless.

Absolutely fascinating.

H.R.6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2019

H.R.2821 - American Promise Act of 2019

H.R.549 - Venezuela TPS Act of 2019

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DOJ: Arrests Made in Nationwide College Admissions Scam: Alleged Exam Cheating & Athletic Recruitment Scheme

What people fail to realize about the severity of this college scam is not about the human trafficking, nor is it about the massive amounts of money people made selling university admissions, it is about what happens with the students who graduate.

These students will graduate with degrees, get great jobs, and become experts, sometimes in the same university of which they graduated.

These graduates will then pump their talking points white papers to further the privatization of the U.S. by pushing crap.

Yes, I said it.

U.S. universities will crank out indoctrinated crap that comes from foreign universities like Tel Aviv University.

Yes, U.S. domestic policies are generated by foreign interests, which are not in the best interest of the nation, like USC and its work on Michigan Emergency Manager and Detroit Land Bank Authority.

These are the reasons why "The Poors" do not get into college.

What makes this scheme so nefarious is because the bribes were laundered through child welfare NGOs.

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It seems this drama is just getting started.

Personal tennis instructor for Michelle Obama, her daughters charged in bribery scheme

Defendants include CEOs, actresses, university athletic coaches, and college exam administrators

BOSTON – Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits were arrested by federal agents in multiple states this morning and charged in federal court in Boston. Athletic coaches from Yale, Stanford, USC, Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, are implicated, as well as parents and exam administrators. 

William “Rick” Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., was charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Singer owned and operated the Edge College & Career Network LLC (“The Key”) – a for-profit college counseling and preparation business – and served as the CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF) – a non-profit corporation that he established as a purported charity.

Between approximately 2011 and February 2019, Singer allegedly conspired with dozens of parents, athletic coaches, a university athletics administrator, and others, to use bribery and other forms of fraud to secure the admission of students to colleges and universities including Yale University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University, among others. Also charged for their involvement in the scheme are 33 parents and 13 coaches and associates of Singer’s businesses, including two SAT and ACT test administrators.  

Also charged is John Vandemoer, the head sailing coach at Stanford University, Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith, the former head soccer coach at Yale University, and Mark Riddell, a counselor at a private school in Bradenton, Fla. 

The conspiracy involved 1) bribing SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker, typically Riddell, to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students or to correct the students’ answers after they had taken the exam; 2) bribing university athletic coaches and administrators—including coaches at Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas—to facilitate the admission of students to elite universities under the guise of being recruited as athletes; and (3) using the façade of Singer’s charitable organization to conceal the nature and source of the bribes.   

1. College Entrance Exam Cheating Scheme

According to the charging documents, Singer facilitated cheating on the SAT and ACT exams for his clients by instructing them to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the children purport to have learning disabilities in order to obtain the required medical documentation. Once the extended time was granted, Singer allegedly instructed the clients to change the location of the exams to one of two test centers: a public high school in Houston, Texas, or a private college preparatory school in West Hollywood, Calif. At those test centers, Singer had established relationships with test administrators Niki Williams and Igor Dvorskiy, respectively, who accepted bribes of as much as $10,000 per test in order to facilitate the cheating scheme. Specifically, Williams and Dvorskiy allowed a third individual, typically Riddell, to take the exams in place of the students, to give the students the correct answers during the exams, or to correct the students’ answers after they completed the exams. Singer typically paid Ridell $10,000 for each student’s test. Singer’s clients paid him between $15,000 and $75,000 per test, with the payments structured as purported donations to the KWF charity. In many instances, the students taking the exams were unaware that their parents had arranged for the cheating.

2. College Recruitment Scheme

It is further alleged that throughout the conspiracy, parents paid Singer approximately $25 million to bribe coaches and university administrators to designate their children as purported athletic recruits, thereby facilitating the children’s’ admission to those universities. Singer allegedly described the scheme to his customers as a “side door,” in which the parents paid Singer under the guise of charitable donations to KWF. In turn, Singer funneled those payments to programs controlled by the athletic coaches, who then designated the children as recruited athletes – regardless of their athletic experience and abilities. Singer also made bribe payments to most of the coaches personally.

For example, during a call with one parent, Singer stated: “Okay, so, who we are…what we do is we help the wealthiest families in the U.S. get their kids into school…My families want a guarantee. So, if you said to me ‘here’s our grades, here’s our scores, here’s our ability, and we want to go to X school’ and you give me one or two schools, and then I’ll go after those schools and try to get a guarantee done.” 

As part of the scheme, Singer directed employees of The Key and the KWF to create falsified athletic “profiles” for students, which were then submitted to the universities in support of the students’ applications. The profiles included fake honors that the students purportedly received and elite teams that they purportedly played on.  In some instances, parents supplied Singer with staged photos of their children engaged in athletic activity – such as using a rowing machine or purportedly playing water polo.

3. Tax Fraud Conspiracy

Beginning around 2013, Singer allegedly agreed with certain clients to disguise bribe payments as charitable contributions to the KWF, thereby enabling clients to deduct the bribes from their federal income taxes. Specifically, Singer allegedly instructed clients to make payments to the KWF in return for facilitating their children’s admission to a chosen university. Singer used a portion of that money to bribe university athletic coaches to designate the children as student athletes. Thereafter, Masera or another KWF employee mailed letters from the KWF to the clients expressing thanks for their purported charitable contributions. The letter stated: “Your generosity will allow us to move forward with our plans to provide educational and self-enrichment programs to disadvantaged youth,” and falsely indicated that “no good or services were exchanged” for the donations. Many clients then filed personal tax returns that falsely reported the payment to the KWF as charitable donations.

The charge of racketeering conspiracy provides for a sentence of no greater than 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater and restitution. The charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a fine of not more than $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the money laundering. The charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States provides for a sentence of no greater than five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of obstruction of justice provides for a sentence of no greater than 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, and of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services wire fraud, provide for a sentence of no greater than 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of 250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations in Boston, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eric S. Rosen, Justin D. O’Connell, Leslie Wright, and Kristen A. Kearney of Lelling’s Securities and Financial Fraud Unit are prosecuting the case.

The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Appendix

1. William Rick Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., owner of the Edge College & Career Network and CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation, was charged in an Information with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice.  He is scheduled to plead guilty in Boston before U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel on March 12, 2019, at 2:30 p.m.;
2. Mark Riddell, 36, of Palmetto, Fla., was charged in an Information with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering;
3. Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith, 51, of Madison, Conn., the former head women’s soccer coach at Yale University, was charged in an Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services wire fraud as well as honest services wire fraud;  
4. John Vandemoer, 41, of Stanford, Calif., the former sailing coach at Stanford University, was charged in an Information with racketeering conspiracy and is expected to plead guilty in Boston before U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel on March 12, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.;
5. David Sidoo, 59, of Vancouver, Canada, was charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Sidoo was arrested on Friday, March 8th in San Jose, Calif., and appeared in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California yesterday. A date for his initial appearance in federal court in Boston has not yet been scheduled.  

The following defendants were charged in an indictment with racketeering conspiracy:

6. Igor Dvorskiy, 52, of Sherman Oaks, Calif., director of a private elementary and high school in Los Angeles and a test administrator for the College Board and ACT;
7. Gordon Ernst, 52, of Chevy Chase, Md., former head coach of men and women’s tennis at Georgetown University;
8. William Ferguson, 48, of Winston-Salem, N.C., former women’s volleyball coach at Wake Forest University;
9. Martin Fox, 62, of Houston, Texas, president of a private tennis academy in Houston;
10. Donna Heinel, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., the senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California;
11. Laura Janke, 36, of North Hollywood, Calif., former assistant coach of women’s soccer at the University of Southern California;
12. Ali Khoroshahin, 49, of Fountain Valley, Calif., former head coach of women’s soccer at the University of Southern California;
13. Steven Masera, 69, of Folsom, Calif., accountant and financial officer for the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation;
14. Jorge Salcedo, 46, of Los Angeles, Calif., former head coach of men’s soccer at the University of California at Los Angeles;
15. Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, Calif., employee of the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation;
16. Jovan Vavic, 57, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., former water polo coach at the University of Southern California; and
17. Niki Williams, 44, of Houston, Texas, assistant teacher at a Houston high school and test administrator for the College Board and ACT.

The following defendant was charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud:

18. Michael Center, 54, of Austin Texas, head coach of men’s tennis at the University of Texas at Austin

The following defendants were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud:

19. Gregory Abbott, 68, of New York, N.Y., the founder and chairman of a food and beverage packaging company;
20. Marcia Abbott, 59, of New York, N.Y.;
21. Gamal Abdelaziz, 62, of Las Vegas, Nev., the former senior executive of a resort and casino operator in Macau, China;
22. Diane Blake, 55, of San Francisco, Calif., an executive at a retail merchandising firm;
23. Todd Blake, 53, of San Francisco, Calif., an entrepreneur and investor;
24. Jane Buckingham, 50, of Beverly Hills, Calif., the CEO of a boutique marketing company;
25. Gordon Caplan, 52, of Greenwich, Conn., co-chairman of an international law firm based in New York City;
26. I-Hin “Joey” Chen, 64, of Newport Beach, Calif., operates a provider of warehousing and related services for the shipping industry;
27. Amy Colburn, 59, of Palo Alto, Calif.;
28. Gregory Colburn, 61, of Palo Alto, Calif.;
29. Robert Flaxman, 62, of Laguna Beach, Calif., founder and CEO of real estate development firm;
30. Mossimo Giannulli, 55, of Los Angeles, Calif., fashion designer;
31. Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, of Atherton, Calif.;
32. Manuel Henriquez, 55, of Atherton, Calif., founder, chairman and CEO of a publicly traded specialty finance company;
33. Douglas Hodge, 61, of Laguna Beach, Calif., former CEO of investment management company;
34. Felicity Huffman, 56, of Los Angeles, Calif., an actress;
35. Agustin Huneeus Jr., 53, of San Francisco, Calif., owner of wine vineyards;
36. Bruce Isackson, 61, of Hillsborough, Calif., president of a real estate development firm;
37. Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, Calif.;
38. Michelle Janavs, 48, of Newport Coast, Calif., former executive of a large food manufacturer; 
39. Elisabeth Kimmel, 54, of Las Vegas, Nev., owner and president of a media company;
40. Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlo Park, Calif., co-owner of jewelry business;
41. Lori Loughlin, 54, of Los Angeles, Calif., an actress;
42. Toby MacFarlane, 56, of Del Mar, Calif., former senior executive at a title insurance company;
43. William McGlashan Jr., 55, of Mill Valley, Calif., senior executive at a global equity firm;
44. Marci Palatella, 63, of Healdsburg, Calif., CEO of a liquor distribution company;
45. Peter Jan Sartorio, 53, of Menlo Park, Calif., packaged food entrepreneur;
46. Stephen Semprevivo, 53, of Los Angeles, Calif., executive at privately held provider of outsourced sales teams;
47. Devin Sloane, 53, of Los Angeles, Calif., founder and CEO of provider of drinking and wastewater systems;
48. John Wilson, 59, of Hyannis Port, Mass., founder and CEO of private equity and real estate development firm;
49. Homayoun Zadeh, 57, of Calabasas, Calif., an associate professor of dentistry; and
50. Robert Zangrillo, 52, of Miami, Fla., founder and CEO of private investment firm.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Detroit DHS LARP Busts First Layer Of Major Modern Day Human Trafficking Ops Through Michigan Universities

Dilly, Dilly, Detroit DHS!

Yes, the Detroit U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE, set up a Live Action Role Play (LARP) to demonstrate, in other jurisdictions, that it is quite plausible that universities run fake immigration operations, bringing in people from other countries, by issuing fake ass degrees, doing fake research, to cash fake checks, because these fake Corporate Shape Shifters, never incorporated, like the Clinton Foundation, et al having to cash checks through Michigan State University.

Now, how come this legal defense PR marketing video was put out in less than an hour after the arrests broke?

I am going with LARP!

Yes, ICE has other universities on its INA radar, and those places like to trafficking tiny humans, too.

I strongly encourage anyone who is caught up in a similar confusion, to watch this video as they explain the Student VISA of the U.S. State Department and how much time you have to exit the country, by February 4, 2019, or correct your immigration status.

https://www.rnlawgroup.com/

This is what I like to call, a transposable model because the exact same fraud scams are all over the social media, even promulgating propaganda, under some fake ass authority.

I bet these captured student scouts will be extremely helpful as DOJ proceeds with its other LARPs.

Feds used fake Michigan university to find undocumented immigrants

Federal agents used a fake university in Farmington Hills to lure undocumented immigrants who were trying to stay in the United States illegally.

The University of Farmington had no staff, no instructors, no curriculum and no classes but was utilized by undercover Homeland Security agents to identify people involved in immigration fraud, according to federal grand jury indictments unsealed Wednesday.

Eight people were charged with participating in a conspiracy to help at least 600 foreign citizens stay in the U.S. illegally, according to the indictments, which describe an innovative investigation that dates to 2015 but intensified one month into President Donald Trump's tenure as part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration.

Those charged include:

• Bharath Kakireddy, 29, of Lake Mary, Florida.
• Aswanth Nune, 26, of Atlanta
• Suresh Reddy Kandala, 31, of Culpeper, Virginia.
• Phanideep Karnati, 35, of Louisville, Kentucky.
• Prem Kumar Rampeesa, 26, of Charlotte, North Carolina.
• Santosh Reddy Sama, 28, of Fremont, California.
• Avinash Thakkallapally, 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
• Naveen Prathipati, 29, of Dallas.

Starting in 2015, the university was part of an undercover operation designed to identify recruiters and entities engaged in immigration fraud, according to the indictment. Homeland Security agents started posing as university officials in February 2017.

Immigration crimes outlined in the indictment date to February 2017 and continued until this month and involved Homeland Security agents posing as owners and employees of the university. The university had a professional website and a physical location at a commercial building on Northwestern Highway.

The University of Farmington's headquarters was in this office building on Northwestern Highway north of Inkster Road in Farmington Hills. (Photo: Google Maps)

"... the university was being used by foreign citizens as a 'pay to stay' scheme which allowed these individuals to stay in the United States as a result of of foreign citizens falsely asserting that they were enrolled as full-time students in an approved educational program and that they were making normal progress toward completion of the course of study," the indictment reads.

The students knew that the university's program was illegal, according to the indictment.

Those charged included recruiters who received cash and kickbacks to find students to attend the university, the government alleges.

Come back for more on this developing story.

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JUDICIARY: Senate Addresses EB-5 & Its Child Welfare Fraud Issues

Chuck Grassley is a bit passionate in his opening statement that the nation is in its third administration where nothing has been done to address updating immigration policies.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is speaking upon child welfare, or rather the removal of children from parents, but, once again, horribly fails to address foster care and adoption.

Slowly, the nation is learning about child welfare law, but they better hurry up on that learning curve, because the fraud schemes continue to grow, as do the off shore bank accounts and money laundering through child welfare NGOs through real estate.

Dilly, dilly!

Make sure to click the link, below, to learn more about the origins of the EB-5 complex fraud schemes that also fund political campaigns.

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Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee “Citizenship for Sale: Oversight of the EB-5 Investor Visa Program” Tuesday, June 19, 2018 

 Good morning. I would like to thank Director Cissna for being here today for this very important hearing on a topic that goes to the very integrity of our nation’s lawful immigration system. 

Before I begin my formal remarks, I want to remind both my Democratic and Republican colleagues that the purpose of today’s hearing is to conduct oversight of a particular immigration program, the EB-5 Investor Visa. 

Our general, annual oversight hearing for Citizenship and Immigration Services is a separate hearing which will happen in September. 

Today, we should focus on the very important and persistent issue at hand: fixing the beleaguered EB-5 Investor Visa Program. Congress created the investor visa program in 1990 to stimulate our economy through job creation and capital investment. 

In 1992, we created a “pilot program” which allowed petitioners to pool their investments in regional centers designated by USCIS. 

Since the regional center program’s creation, interest in the EB-5 program has grown. 

Today, almost all EB-5 petitioners invest in one of 903 approved regional centers. 

As interest in the EB-5 Regional Center Program has grown, so have cases of fraud, corruption and threats to national security. 

There are many, many well-documented examples of the inherent problems in this program. 

In fact, over the last five years, I along with several of my colleagues, have written over 30 oversight letters highlighting the various vulnerabilities of this visa program. 

Because I have consistently raised awareness of the rampant fraud and abuse of this program, I don’t need to tell you about the ex-wife of China’s third most wanted government official who pled guilty to committing EB-5 fraud by submitting false documents as part of a scheme to escape to the U.S. with stolen funds. 

I don’t need to tell you how Homeland Security Investigations discovered a group of Iranian operatives attempting to infiltrate the U.S. and facilitate terrorism through an illegal procurement network back in 2013. 

I also don’t need to detail the concerns with exporting sensitive technology, investment fraud, or other criminal activity. 

So, I’ll only mention some of the most egregious recent cases. 

This past January, a group of over 120 Chinese nationals sued an Idaho real estate development company and claimed they were fraudulently coerced into investing over $60 million. 

The real estate company in question allegedly promised there was “zero risk” to invest in their specific EB-5 project, a claim that clearly violates the program’s requirements that capital be at risk. 

As a result, this specific EB-5 project was terminated by USCIS and the investors’ immigration status was jeopardized—all because this project misrepresented themselves in order to gain quick, easy money. 

In May, the SEC barred two EB-5 companies from selling securities after it was discovered the companies’ president and manager fraudulently raised $22.5 million in EB-5 capital from Chinese investors. 

According to the SEC, these two companies were supposed to use the raised money for the development of a condominium complex. Instead, the companies’ President and his wife stole more than $12 million in order to purchase homes for themselves. 

Finally, and also in May, two Maryland residents were charged with defrauding 31 immigrant investors and using money intended to create jobs after Hurricane Katrina for personal gain. 

The indictment claims the duo contracted with New Orleans to create a $15.5 million investment fund, but instead used the money to buy themselves vacation and rental properties. 

Several months ago, my staff was briefed by officials from the Department’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate on its recent EB-5 National Security Concern Assessment. 

Unsurprisingly, the report found that the program is susceptible to Ponzi schemes and financial fraud, and warned that current vetting by law enforcement systems may have missed national security concerns due to insufficiencies in vetting and data collection. 

I hope today we have the opportunity to hear about the improvements made as a result of this review. Today, in spite of this ample evidence of fraud and corruption, and the concerning national security loopholes, the EB-5 “pilot program” continues to operate exactly the same way it did 25 years ago. 

However, it’s not for a lack of trying. For the past four and a half years, I’ve worked in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion with Senators Leahy, Chairman Goodlatte, and then-Ranking Member John Conyers to reform this program. 

Our staffers have spent countless hours, often working nights, weekends, and holidays, to produce consensus reform packages. 

Each and every time we’ve gotten an agreement at the last minute, powerful, well-connected EB-5 industry groups have torpedoed our efforts. 

For the last year, my staff, along with Chairman Goodlatte, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Flake’s teams, worked around the clock to produce an EB-5 reform package. 

Everyone made numerous concessions in order to reach a deal, and we produced a reform package that was fair and that everyone agreed to. 

Our reforms had the unanimous support of Invest in the USA, the largest EB-5 trade association. 

Our reforms had the support of the EB-5 Rural Alliance, a group working to ensure that rural America has a fair shake at attracting EB-5 money. 

But, these reforms weren’t acceptable to the big moneyed New York industry stakeholders who currently dominate the program. 

And because big money interests weren’t happy with these reforms, they didn’t become law. Let that sink in for a minute. 

In spite of the fact that reforms were agreed to by Congressional offices and had the support of the largest EB-5 trade association, they didn’t become law because a few EB-5 businesses with a lot of money used their political connections and influence to block them. 

While legislative reforms are absolutely necessary, thankfully there is much the administration can do on its own to end corruption in this program. 

Since January of last year, there have been pending regulations at the Department of Homeland Security, which would modernize the program and ensure capital is actually flowing to rural and underserved urban areas. 

As of today, those regulations still have not been implemented. 

I’m looking forward to a fulsome discussion with Director Cissna on all of these topics. I’m hoping he can shed some light on steps USCIS is taking to crack down on fraud and abuse in the program. 

I’d also be curious to hear his thoughts on potential paths forward for legislative reforms. 

Finally, and most importantly, I hope Director Cissna can provide an update on the status of the pending modernization regulations. As I have stated very clearly in several bicameral, bipartisan letters, the administration should finalize the modernization regulation as soon as possible. 

That regulation is a critical and necessary step towards reforming this troubled program. I now turn to the Ranking Minority Member for her opening remarks.

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