18日FBI联合纽约警方展开近年来针对华人社区最大移民诈欺扫荡行动，在全市大举查缉十家涉嫌造假的移民律师楼。被查律师楼大部分位于曼哈坦华埠和皇后区法拉盛，代理的桉件逾千件。有「福州大道」之称的华埠东百汇大道18日上午11时起即被警方封街，当场逮捕约十名律师及律师楼工作人员，没收大量文件。

 

路透社报道，FBI日前突袭了曼哈顿唐人街，20多位律师，律师助理，翻译和其他10个移民律师事务所被指控编造复杂的谎言，帮助数以百计的中国客户欺骗移民局，申请移民绿卡

全部26名被告人面对指控犯移民欺诈。还有两个被控出售伪造的出生证明与身份欺诈。

被告面对5至35年徒刑。

被告人为:

Feng Leng Liu, lawyer,46;

Vanessa Bandrich, lawyer,33;

Feng Li, lawyer,31;

Yuchang"David" Miao, office manager,47;

Shuran"Harry" Liu, office manager,35;

Kevin Lnu, paralegal, age unknown;

Wen Ting Zheng, paralegal,26;

Guo Qin"Lillian" Miao, office manager,45;

Sunny Yang, paralegal, age unknown;

Ken Giles, lawyer,53;

Hong Che, aka Julie Chen, office manager,49;

Freddy Jacobs, lawyer,63;

Fnu"Daisy" Yang, office manager, age unknown;

John Wang, lawyer,32;

Dejin Huang, paralegal,60;

Jian En Wang, office manager,46;

Lianna Chen, translator,24;

Yong"Tom" Zhang, translator,38;

Song"Marshal" Luo, translator,34;

Zian Jun Yang, translator,58;

Zeyuan"Steve" Wang, paralegal,32;

Xu Lu, office manager,42;

Huan Wang, paralegal,40;

Liying Lin, religious trainer,29;

Xiao Feng Xu, office manager,57;

Xia Ping"Wendy" Wen, office manager,49. 

 

Law Firms Are Accused of Aiding Chinese Immigrants’ False Asylum Claims

Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

F.B.I. agents during a raid in Chinatown in Manhattan =”description”>They invented woeful tales of persecution for their Chinese clients. Prepped them>In all,26 people, including6 lawyers, were charged Tuesday with helping Chinese immigrants submit false asylum claims in an effort to stay in the United States, law enforcement officials said.

The indictments describe elaborate schemes based in law offices in Manhattan’s Chinatown and in Flushing, Queens, which involved teams of paralegals and office managers, translators and a church official, who conspired to dupeimmigration officials by inventing stories of political and religious persecution for their clients, officials said.

The indictments say female clients who sought asylum based>More than20 defendants were arrested in raids in Manhattan’s Chinatown and in Flushing, capping a three-year investigation.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, accused the defendants of“weaving elaborate fictions” and making it“more difficult for those rdquo; Mr. Kwong said.“Everybody knows about it, and these violations go>Immigrants can apply for asylum within a year of arriving in the United States and may qualify if they can show that they have suffered persecution or have a“well-founded fear of future persecution”>Far more Chinese immigrants seek and receive asylum in the United States than any other group, government figures show. In fiscal year2011, about8,600 Chinese immigrants received asylum, or more than34 percent of all successful asylum seekers.

The investigation began after federal immigration officials in New York told investigators they were seeing similarities in many of the cases they were handling, according to an official briefed>In many of the cases reviewed by investigators, Chinese immigrants said they had been persecuted for being Christian or followers of Falun Gong. Others said they were persecuted for their political leanings. Yet others claimed they had suffered forcible abortions under China’s family-planning rules, the authorities said.

But investigators determined that many of the asylum applicants“had not actually suffered persecution in China,” according to the indictments.

In exchange for money, the indictments state,“the law firm would make up a story of persecution and the client would need to memorize that story.”

Many of the law firms referred clients to the Full Gospel Church in Flushing, where they would meet with a church official, Liying Lin, prosecutors said.

Ms. Lin,29, provided services to asylum seekers including“training in the basic tenets of Christianity,” prosecutors said. But much of Ms. Lin’s instruction was specifically aimed at tricking the immigration authorities, according to the indictment against her, which claimed that she“trained asylum applicants>In return for such instruction, applicants“were expected to make cash donations.” For an additional price, Ms. Lin provided certificates showing“the client’s attendance at church and/or the client’s baptism,” according to the indictment.

All26 defendants were charged with conspiring to commit immigration fraud. They were awaiting arraignment Tuesday night.

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涉难民欺诈 FBI纽约律师楼抓21人华人占多

在18日早上的行动中，位于华埠东百老汇街上的2号和11号两栋楼被封，FBI进行搜查。(摄影﹕蔡溶/大纪元)

【2012年12月19日讯】（大纪元记者蔡溶纽约报导）美国联邦调查局（FBI）连同纽约市警局，周二（18日）突然搜查了市内至少10家律师楼，有26人被控涉嫌难民申请欺诈。在18日早上的扫荡行动中，共有21人被捕，两人将在今天投案自首，另有三人在逃。

在18日早上的行动中，位于华埠东百老汇街上的2号和11号两栋楼被封，FBI进行搜查。其中11号楼4楼的一家律师行被搜查，而位于2号楼4楼至9楼的律师行也同时被搜查。据目击者称，被抓捕的大部分是华人也有西方人士，被搜查的律师行规模都比较大，客户多为华人。

抓捕行动后，不少华人青年在被搜查的律师楼附近进进出出，急于了解自己的难民申请文件是否受到影响。联成公所顾问赵文笙对事件评论说，其实聘请非法运营的移民服务中介办身分，不仅损失钱财，移民申请遭拒，还可能向移民局暴露其非法身分，有可能被递解出境。

其中11号楼4楼的一家律师行Bandrich& Associates被搜查。(摄影﹕蔡溶/大纪元)

据美国司法部公布的新闻公告，曼哈顿联邦法院起诉了包括六名律师在内的二十六人，指控他们在数百个移民庇护申请中进行移民欺诈。这些被搜查的律师行涉嫌为海外客户假造难民申请材料，并培训客户如何向移民官说谎。被捕的21人均在律师楼工作，其中6人是律师，另有四人在皇后区一个政治庇护办公室工作的翻译人员被起诉。

此外，一名在皇后区一所教堂的工作人员被起诉，她涉嫌为来自中国的客户，提供基督教知识培训，以便这些人假称因信仰基督教在中国被迫害。其他主要造假方式还有，假装是计划生育的受害者；假称因信仰基督教受迫害；假称是法轮功学员或中国民主岁）、Freddy Jacobs律师（63岁）、办公室经理杨Fnu（别名Daisy）、王约翰律师（32岁）、黄德金律师助理（别名黄叔或老黄∕60岁）、王建恩部门经理（46岁），翻译陈莲娜（24岁）、翻译张勇（别名汤姆∕38岁）、翻译罗讼（34岁）、翻译杨献军（58岁）、王泽员（别名Steve∕32岁）、陆旭办公室经理（42岁）、王欢（40岁）、宗教训练员林立英（29岁）、办公室主任徐小峰（57岁）及办公室经理温霞平（49岁）等。

根据起诉书，嫌犯Ken Giles将面临最高15年监禁的刑罚，嫌犯Freddy Jacobs面临的最高刑罚是25年监禁。林立英（音译，Liying Lin）面临的最高刑罚是35年监禁。王约翰（John Wang）等四名被告中的两名面临最高20年监禁。其余19名被告面对的最高刑罚是五年监禁。

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