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Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com)
New submitter s.petry quotes a report from The Mercury News: 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. 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. Nawaz submitted fake "end-client letters" to the government, falsely claiming the workers were on-site and performing jobs, according to the indictment.
Slashdot reader s.petry adds: "While not the only problem with the H-1B Visa program, this is a start at investigating and hopefully correcting problems."
Slashdot reader s.petry adds: "While not the only problem with the H-1B Visa program, this is a start at investigating and hopefully correcting problems."
I think you have misunderstood these people's crimes.
Their real crime was that their illegal enterprise was too small.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
By electing a president of a multinational corporation who staffed his cabinet with globalist billionaires? Yeah, sure, bro.
That's not even a dent in this problem. Laundering H1B visas is the mainstay of the IT industry.
1. Wikipedia isn't a valid source of anything.
Wikipedia is a good starting place for a summary and references. Those references can be validated.
Note that the poster did not simply quote wikipedia and expect you to accept it as fact. But referenced what amounts to an essay that contains several citations. You can choose to read it or not, and you can dispute those citations if you wish. But trying to have a general ban on the use of wikipedia in any discussion is not reasonable.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
None of them are in tech, though. Why should bankers and oil guys care about hurting silicon valley?
Their anti-science stance (e.g., 20% cut to NIH funding), will have ripple effects throughout silicon valley.
Fast Federal Court and I.T.C. updates
Get out of NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, etc and you'll find lots of decent civilized Americans.
This is very fucking accurate. So many people have no fucking clue what the USA is because they've been stuck in overcrowded cities with no humanity their entire lives. The sad part is that they mock anyone who doesn't live in a big city, calling them ignorant, backwards, intolerant etc. when those labels more accurately fit themselves.
Those overcrowded cities are part of what the USA is. It's a big, diverse country. While people in cities can be assholes, people in rural areas can be pretty hostile to anyone considered an outsider. Different places, different problems.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)