There Seems To Have Been A Missile Plan In Detroit

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Too bad the Detroit Land Bank Authority's plan for housing did not go as planned.

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FOREIGN CONSULATES IN DETROIT

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U.S. Army rejects Detroit for its Futures Command, citing livability deficit

It's hard to imagine two organizations more different than Amazon and the U.S. Army. But Detroit now enjoys the dubious distinction of having been spurned by both those mega-employers, albeit for very different reasons.

Just months after Amazon rejected Detroit's bid to become the home of its second headquarters, the Army has decreed that the city is also unsuitable to be the headquarters for the Army Futures Command, a multibillion-dollar initiative tasked with modernizing the nation's oldest service branch.

But the latest snub has less to do with the shallowness of Detroit's talent pool than with its shortcomings as a place for the Army's best and brightest to live. 

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Now, barring the success of a long-shot appeal by Sen. Gary Peters, southeast Michigan is poised to sustain another blow to its self-esteem, and another setback in its quest for recognition as a leader in technological innovation.

The future of fighting
The nascent Futures Command is the keystone in what the Army describes as its most significant reorganization since the Vietnam War. The 500 military and civilian personnel initially assigned to the new command will lead efforts to integrate cutting-edge technology more quickly into the Army's combat efforts.

When the Army retained consulting giant McKinsey & Co. to evaluate 30 cities as possible venues for the the new command's headquarters, Peters, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee that his predecessor Carl Levin once chaired, was confident Detroit would emerge as a top candidate.

Peters had been present in December when U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis told an audience of military contractors that he considered Michigan one of four regions (along with Silicon Valley, Boston and Texas) spearheading the cutting-edge technology that would drive the Pentagon's modernization efforts.

Peters knows that two of the Army's most important procurement and research units, the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) and the Tank Automotive Research Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC), have long been headquartered in Warren.

"If you're building a futures command for a ground-force military organization, you'd think Detroit would be the obvious place," he said in a phone interview this week.

But last month, when Undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy sent Peters' committee a list of the 15 finalists from whom the Army proposed to solicit bids for the Future Command, Peters was startled to learn that Detroit had not made the cut.

Detroit's Achilles heel
At first blush, the contest for the Army's love is shaping up much like the richer and more celebrated competition for Amazon's second headquarters.

Finalists for the Futures Command HQ include Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, Raleigh, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. Eleven of those 15 cities are also among the 20 finalists Amazon selected earlier this year. A 12th Army finalist, Seattle, is the home of Amazon's current headquarters.

Like Amazon, the Army says it will put a premium on the quality and educational credentials of each region's workforce — a priority the online retailer cited as critical in its decision to eliminate Detroit as a candidate to host its second headquarters.

But by the Army's lights, at least, Detroit's talent pool was sufficiently wide and deep to support a vibrant Futures Command: The city's workforce ranked seventh among the 30 cities McKinsey evaluated. Detroit was also a top 10 finisher in two of the other three categories the selection team used to rank possible headquarters sites.

But in a fourth comparison that ranked contenders according to the quality of life each offered to the staff of the Futures Command, Detroit finished near the bottom.

"Detroit ranked so low on the livability scale," Peters said the Army's briefers told him, "that it blew us out of contention."

The Livability Index
The livability scale that torpedoed Detroit's ambitions isn't some proprietary formula developed by McKinsey or the Pentagon. It's a well-established metric conceived by AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons), whose Public Policy Institute touts the web-based Livability Index as a tool "people of all ages" can use to compare the quality of life in metropolitan areas across America.

The Liveability Index ranks cities according to seven criteria. In the most recent evaluation, Detroit ranked among the middle third of the nation's metropolitan areas in six categories, including housing access and affordability; neighborhood access to work and play; transportation options; air and water quality; civic and social engagement; and economic and educational opportunity.

In the seventh category, health, which encompasses everything from the prevalence of smoking and obesity to patient satisfaction with their hospital care, Detroit ranked in the bottom third — a data point Peters said should be sobering to state lawmakers hoping to restrict Medicaid eligibility for thousands of Michiganders who have gained access in the last four years.

"It's another reason why we have to assure that Medicaid services remain in place," he said. "When a significant number of people don't have access to health care, it hurts the whole region's ability to attract employers."

Detroit's overall livability score was 47 — just below the median for all the metropolitan areas AARP scrutinizes. But throwing nearby suburbs into the mix doesn't significantly alter the picture. When all of Wayne County is included, the liveability score doesn't budge, and Oakland County's 50th percentile ranking is still well below those of Futures Command finalists like San Francisco (66) and Seattle (63).

Peters says he was encouraged to see that Detroit outscored more than half of the cities selected as finalists for the Futures Command headquarters on the other three criteria McKinsey applied.

Detroit scored ninth in private sector innovation, finishing ahead of eight cities, including Austin, which advanced to the Army's final round. The Motor City had an even better seventh place showing in two other categories: talent, and strength of research and development resources for science, technology, engineering and math, popularly known as STEM studies.

A second chance?
Peters says Detroit's strong showing in those "technical categories" helped him persuade Army Secretary Mark Esper that Detroit should be invited to submit a bid packet to the task force in charge of selecting the Futures Command site, a privilege that had been restricted to the 15 finalists.

He says a team that includes the defense subsidiary of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce has begun preparing a pitch similar to the one the city made last year, albeit unsuccessfully, to Amazon. Peters adds that Detroit is likely to score especially well on another factor — cost — that will be added to the selection criteria used to cull finalists.

"If you look at the sort of people with whom the Army intends to staff the Futures Command," Peters notes, "a young captain's salary is going to go a lot farther in Detroit than in San Francisco or Boston."

The Army hopes to finish reviewing the finalists' packets next month and make a a final site decision soon after. And even if Secretary Esper and company persist in looking elsewhere, the Army's snub would be a lesser blow than Amazon's.

The online retailer's decision to eliminate Detroit as a potential site for its second headquarters came after a Who's Who of Michigan's political, corporate and philanthropic leaders collaborated in a full-court press for Amazon's favor. The city that ultimately prevails in that contest stands to reap as many as 50,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

The Futures Command will have a much smaller footprint, employing hundreds instead of the tens of thousands that might be attached to, say, a new military base.

But that's no consolation to Peters, who says the Army's decision to site its Futures Command elsewhere would send an unfortunate signal to other high-tech employers shopping for their own expansion sites.

"To me, this is about the signal the Army's decision will send," Peters says. "We want to be seen as the place the Army wants to be as it thinks about the future of technology and warfare."

The Army seems to have figured out that private entrepreneurs are faster and more nimble than the Pentagon when it comes to developing and applying new technology, so it wants to make sure its Futures Command is located near the companies most likely to pioneer important breakthrough. The work being done at General Motors, Ford and Willow Run's American Center for Mobility can make a legitimate claim for the Army's attention.

What a tragedy if the region's failure to invest in its own social, environmental and medical well-being make the cost of proximity to Detroit's technological leadership too dear for even an organization as rich as the U.S. Army to bear.


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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.

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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.

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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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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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Detroit DHS University Human Trafficking LARP Goes Deeper Than You Think

One reason why there are so many foreign students in our universities is because the U.S. must import out intellectual resources.

Why must we import our intellectual resources?

Have you ever attended a Detroit Public School, or tried to pay for university tuition?

I will tell you this, there are many students from India, who come in, having been targeted and chosen in their hometowns, to secure a degree in engineering or medicine, to eventually secure that glorious HB-1, for the purposes of securing a job to send money back home to their families.

Sometimes, they send money home to their families so they can eat.

Sometimes, they send money home to their families so they will not be killed.

Many of these students, upon graduation, secure jobs through temporary employment services, like Kelly in federal and state governments.

This is the temporary employment group that would take in Pakistani and Indian tech workers who have recently graduated from graduate schools in the U.S. and needed HB-1 VISA to stay in the country.

The new grads were granted VISAs but were put up in houses, 10 deep at times, sleeping on floors, working for $20 an hour as temp workers in federal data programs.

Sometimes, there were students who were intentionally not allowed to graduate, being forced to work for less than minimum wage as temp employees, in highly technical jobs in federal intelligence situations, in fear of the lives of their family back home.

I helped a friend get an expedited HB-1 through the clause of being granted by securing employment through a non-profit.

My friend worked as "slave labor" with threats of the well being of his family back home, which he would send money back to them.

These students are not all bad, but in many situations, just poor kids trying to survive in a world that gave them no other opportunities in humanity, all by social design.

These foreign students are not just from India, but also Russia, Israel, Ukraine, oh, the list of nations goes on and on.

#FreeMariaButina

And, yes, some of these students are under the ages of 13 years and come in through university sports programs.

Some are under the age of 5 years because the INA has many situations of which to bring in foreign kids, because they all have to go to school, if they live that long.

One of the programs of bringing in foreign students is called international adoption and they do it, bearing the heraldry of the church, with the vessel manifest of their UCC student chattel.

This is one of the operations used to traffic these students:

Founder: Pat Webbink   http://www.enrichmentcenters.com/

It is all run through child welfare.

https://mybusiness.dc.gov/#/quicksearchresult

See

Details

Entity Name : ENRICHMENT CENTERS, INC. (THE)

File Number : C0000001462

Next Report Year : 2018

Entity Address :

1629 K ST NW WASHINGTON DC20006

Model Type : CORPORATION (FOR PROFIT)

Entity Status : REVOKED

Last Retrieved On : 9/18/2017 12:00:00 AM

India demands release of students of fake Farmington university

Behold, the heraldry of
Farmington University.

New Delhi – India said it is closely monitoring the detention of several Indian students in the U.S. and has urged authorities there to not deport them against their will.

Indian news reports say as many as 129 Indians were among those detained Jan. 30 by U.S.

immigration authorities in connection with enrollment at the fake University of Famington fake in Farmington Hills. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the university was set up by authorities as part of sting operation to catch people violating the terms of their visas.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement Saturday that it has been in contact with U.S. officials and has expressed concern for the detained students. The ministry said it urged the U.S. to release them “at the earliest” and cautioned that some “may have been duped.”

More: Feds used fake Michigan university in immigration sting

More: How the feds pulled off University of Farmington sting

“Our concern over the dignity and well-being of the detained students and the need for immediate consular access for Indian officials to the detainees was reiterated,” the statement said.

It also said the students “should be treated differently from those recruiters who have duped them.”

In a statement Jan. 30, ICE said eight people had been charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit.

“Homeland Security Investigations special agents uncovered a nationwide network that grossly exploited U.S. immigration laws. These suspects aided hundreds of foreign nationals to remain in the United States illegally by helping to portray them as students, which they most certainly were not,” Steve Francis, the Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge, said in the statement.

The university in Farmington Hlls was operated for almost two years by HSI special agents as part of an undercover operation, the statement said.

The eight alleged recruiters assisted foreign citizen students in “fraudulently obtaining immigration documents from the school and facilitated the creation of false student records, including transcripts, for the purpose of deceiving immigration authorities,” it said.

“All participants in the scheme knew that the school had no instructors or actual classes,” the statement said.

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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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