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Two Bay Area tech executives are accused of filing false visa documents through a staffing agency in a scheme to illegally bring a pool of foreign tech workers into the United States.
An indictment from a federal grand jury unsealed on Friday accuses Jayavel Murugan, Dynasoft Synergy's chief executive officer, and a 40-year-old Santa Clara man, Syed Nawaz, of fraudulently submitting H-1B applications in an effort to illegally obtain visas, according to Brian Stretch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.
The men are charged with 26 counts of visa fraud, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, use of false documents, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to prosecutors. Each charge can carry penalties of between two and 20 years in prison.
Murugan, 46, is co-owner of Dynasoft, an employment firm based in Fremont with an office in India, according to the indictment. Nawaz is believed to have worked for several Bay Area tech companies, including Cisco, Brocade Communications and Equinix.
Prosecutors say the men used fraudulent documents to bring workers into the U.S. and create a pool of H-1B workers to hire out to tech companies. The indictment charges that from 2010 to 2016, Dynasoft petitioned to place workers at Stanford University, Cisco and Brocade, but the employers had no intention of receiving the foreign workers named on the applications.
Source: The Mercury News
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:46PM (8 children)
BBut... but... free trade... the invisible hands of the free market fairy, (no, silly, not Aphrodite of Milos)... globalization and raising people from poverty....
(shit... my profits!)
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 02 2017, @01:39PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 06 2017, @11:42AM
Because the capitalism in America is oh so pure and non-hypocritical. (see the two last - bracketed - lines?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday April 02 2017, @01:48PM (5 children)
At first glance I was presuming this comment to be a stab at the "Enlightened" Tech Executive class including the likes of Zuckerburg, et al. who profess to love diversity and low-income, uncivilized (i.e. illiterate, unskilled - not "bad") people, yet would never think to live or work in a ghetto or other area where those types of people would inevitably accumulate.
But then I see the title, "Protectionism running amok" and I have to wonder. Is this not protectionism in action?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:09PM (3 children)
When a people are being exploited, and those people band together to "protect" themselves, that is indeed "protectionism".
In this case, the "executives" were exploiting the US citizens. Burn 'em at the stake.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:48PM (2 children)
Hang 'em on screen during Superbowl halftime.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:05PM (1 child)
The divisions in the US are out of control. Please stop making death threats on here, we already have enough anger rolling around here without literal death threats. I'd be fine with some good jail time!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 02 2017, @05:43PM
Haven't that been the order of the day in the USA since it's inception?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @05:48PM
It's easy to be "good" when someone else is force feed the bill and violence. It's not the first time top of the society screws everyone else.