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Federal Prosecutors Actually Charge an IT Firm with H1-B Visa Fraud

posted by martyb on Friday September 30 2016, @06:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-about-time dept.

McGruber writes:

The Associated Press is reporting that Federal Prosecutors have filed conspiracy charges against a part-owner of two information technology firms and an employee for fraudulently using the H-1B program.

Prosecutors said the conspirators falsely represented that the foreign workers had full-time positions and were paid an annual salary. They said the workers were only paid when placed at a third-party client and the defendants sometimes generated false payroll records. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and obstruct justice and conspiracy to harbor aliens. They face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

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  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday September 30 2016, @11:17AM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Friday September 30 2016, @11:17AM (#408329)

    The part I don't understand is why the linked article is incomplete with a big "SEE FULL ARTICLE" button. Why would any site deliberately hide their content!?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Thexalon on Friday September 30 2016, @11:48AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday September 30 2016, @11:48AM (#408332)

    Because that way, they know how many people wanted to read past the first paragraph. It's for tracking purposes, in other words.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Friday September 30 2016, @12:06PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday September 30 2016, @12:06PM (#408336) Journal

    With Javascript turned off, I don't see that. I see a ten-paragraph article ending in "... up to 15 years in prison if convicted on all counts."

    • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday October 01 2016, @02:03AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Saturday October 01 2016, @02:03AM (#408620) Journal

      I could have written more clearly: I have Javascript turned off, and I don't see that (I didn't look with Javascript enabled).