Posted on 11/26/2018 4:59:02 PM PST by Kaslin
A 43-year-old immigration attorney from Queens, New York was found guilty of asylum fraud, making false statements to immigration authorities and aggravated identity theft in a federal court on Nov. 19.
An investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu operated a scheme to submit fraudulent asylum forms. She knowingly submitted more than 180 applications in which she lied about the applicants’ personal narratives of alleged persecution, criminal and travel histories. Parcalaboiu deliberately fabricated detailed personal stories of purported mistreatment of her clients, forged her clients’ signatures and falsely notarized affidavits.
"Andreea Dumitru, an immigration attorney, scammed the asylum program, which was designed to provide safe harbor for the world’s most vulnerable people. She will now serve time in prison for her crimes," Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
Parcalaboiu ran the scheme between 2013 and 2017. She was convicted of one count of asylum fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of making false statements, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; and one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory consecutive sentence of two years in prison.
According to one ICE agent, Parcalaboiu's scheme took time away from those who were truly seeking asylum.
“Dumitru is alleged to have used her trusted position to defraud the government, submitting fraudulent documents to claim asylum,” said Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent-in-Charge Angel M. Melendez, according to a QNS report. “Her alleged actions took up time and resources while those with valid asylum claims waited in line. Now, Dumitru will enter a courtroom as a defendant to face the consequences for her alleged actions.”
Parcalaboiu was previously arrested for failing to pay $5 million in Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) taxes.
Say it ain’t so..... /s
A crooked lawyer? Sorry,there’s no way I’d ever believe that.
MTA Taxes... $5 million? How?
She’s a real operator, one who would look good in orange.
A lawyer showed up at the Pearly Gates and complained to St.Peter that he was only forty-five, why was he there? St.Peter answered: “Well according to your billable hours you’re a hundred and fifty-three”.
Iceberg tip...but it’s a start.
but..but.. TRUMP!...
Now, will there be any consequences to the 180 applicants who submitted false applications?
There really are honest lawyers. I met them both.
Why is anyone with this kind of name even here? Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu
Sounds like a subversive.
She was originally charged with 1 count of asylum fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and 1 count of making false statements, which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.
Time to try her 179 more times, in my opinion, since supposedly has submitted over 180 applications in which she “knowingly made false statements and representations about, among other things, the applicants’ criminal histories, personal narratives of alleged persecution, and/or locations”.
This had to be fairly lucrative. Who was paying her and how much was she collecting?
A crooked female lawyer? No way. Impossible!
Lawyers — America’s #1 Enemy Within.
She’s an ugly bitch, isn’t she?
“Who was paying her...?”
There’s a really great question.
Romanian name. Must have been born there.
so, once a gypsy always a gypsy ?
“Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu”
Isn’t this diversity great! I mean you almost never see a “Susan Smith” being charged with these kinds of crimes. And this foreign trash probably got her law degree here using taxpayer bucks!
This had to be fairly lucrative. Who was paying her and how much was she collecting?
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US taxpayers are on the tab for this.
Imo, the whole illegal immigration movement is a huge money churning criminal enterprise.
Guv moonbeam pours a ton of taxpayer money into legal representation for illegal immigrants in cali.
Last week NJ just allocated $2mm to legal representation for illegal immigrants.
It goes on everywhere
Then all the crooked lawyers make campaign donation to the crooked pols to perpetuate the scam.
Rinse & repeat.
Panic in DC cause these crooked swampers are afraid trump’s gonna turn off the tap
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