Ain't this a crying shame

[britisha]

<span style="font-style: italic">Money mek ppl duh annitin', even sell dem ownah moddas</span>

Soljahs robbing the military
si di link 'ere


It was a marriage made in heaven: Russian immigrants who needed citizenship papers and bachelor soldiers who wanted a housing allowance.

Bringing them together was a pair of New York military men who brokered sham weddings and now face up to five years in the federal clink, prosecutors say.

The alleged masterminds are Pavel and Alexander Manin, two brothers who came to the city from Kazakhstan and joined the U.S. military after 9/11.

They're accused of transporting Russian women from the city to the Army base in Fort Bragg, N.C., for the nuptials - and pocketing thousands in fees.

The scam &quot;violates longstanding immigration law and depletes much-needed resources for military personnel,&quot; North Carolina U.S. Attorney George Holding said when eight suspects were indicted.

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[britisha]

Re: Ain't this a crying shame

Ran into this while looking for another story about West Indians being scammed..


<span style="font-style: italic">He vowed to get hardworking immigrants who were put on the terror watch list by mistake off it, but a Queens scam artist was really just looking to take them for a ride.

Posing as a federal agent, he bilked fellow West Indians of $1 million with bogus claims he could persuade the Homeland Security Department to clear their names, prosecutors say.

At the same time, he also allegedly was running a fraudulent real estate scheme, claiming he could help his victims buy up, at a steep discount, property seized by the feds.</span>



Ugly

[britisha]

Re: Ain't this a crying shame

Can't find the story on the www but the gist is Caribbean immigrants are becoming the the target of unscrupulous real estate, immigration and Ponzi schemers according to recent court cases...

Well I googled the names and JACKPOT... This is the sort of crimes that is being perpetrated....and

<span style="font-style: italic">NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advice so bad they now face deportation, prosecutors said Thursday.</span>

link...and


<span style="font-style: italic">According to the Indictment, the defendants engaged in a scheme to enrich themselves by obtaining mortgages from lenders using straw purchasers and through the submission of false documentation, including false loan applications, false employment verification forms, false salary statements, and false bank account statements reflecting high account balances. The defendants also allegedly used and caused others to use false or stolen Florida&amp;#65533;s driver&amp;#65533;s licenses, identification cards, and social security numbers as their personal identification at closings, in order to purchase property in the names of individuals whose identification documents had been previously stolen. </span>


is money dem love so? How stupid!!..they really are, why do they think, if they do, believe that they won't get caught????

Problem is they are &quot;carrying down&quot; their poor unfortunate &quot;West Indian&quot; brothers and sisters who are unaware of certain laws that should protect them...One set of Ponzi schemers stole 14.3 million dollars ALLEGEDLY from hundreds of Haitian-Americans investors from Florida and New Jersey via... Buyer beware...