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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."
Why does TFS go out of its way to tell us that Syed Nawaz is 40, while not mentioning how old Jayavel Murugan is. Is there something significant about being 40 that I'm missing?
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1. The investigation that led to this started during Obama's presidency, has nothing to do with Trump.
2. Trump is a multi-millionaire or billionaire, many of the people he's appointed are similarly wealthy people. He's also appointed former top level Goldman Sachs employees. Steve Bannon also worked for Goldman Sachs.
3. I do hope he keeps this promise in regards to H1B visas, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
4. "Globalism" is a dog whistle for anti-immigration, anti-NATO, anti-EU, and anti-rich people with any bit of Jewish ancestry or who are not aligned right or far right, but all other rich people, like Trump, Bannon, Betsy Devos, Tillerson, Putin, Russian oligarchs, are all just fine.
There are still plenty of Americans who do business on a handshake, do not ever screw eachother on business, and never need the courts to resolve business arguments. There are many American businessmen who will help their competitors when those competitors suffer a natural disaster or a family emergency. Get out of NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, etc and you'll find lots of decent civilized Americans.
Of course, if you live in a typical magalopolis populated by amoral idiots, then all bets are off... and ultimately even the courts cannot save you because the judges, witnesses and jury members do not believe in and uphold oaths.
Just sayin.
I was taking a non-professional course on the law a few months ago. IANAL. The other attendees were attorneys, college professors, and the like.
The attorney making the presentation that day was talking about a hospital doctor accused of making a mistake and who denied that he had done what he was accused of. The people initially involved in the investigation at this point were just the patient and the doctor, so at this point it was just a he said/she said situation.
The attorney wanted to mention a couple of cultural differences. The doctor was extremely upset that someone had basically accused him of not telling the truth. The attorney said that the doctor felt like in his culture his reputation was the most important thing about him and so he said that he could never say anything that was untrue. And furthermore, anyone contradicting him was committing a grave insult so that's why the nurses should not be asked to testify. Someone asked, "what was his culture that truthful reputation was so important", and the presenter said "Well, he's from India".
I have never heard a group of lawyers and college professors laugh so hard. It was several minutes before they calmed down.
The fraudulent applications would have been people who were not qualified for the H1B program and effectively took a slot away from a qualified foreign worker. My guess is someone in India willing to fork over money to these guys stole a job from some college grad in India. The college grad might have actually be able to rise up and take jobs away from an American citizen. An incompetent fraud is not likely to hold down a job for long before being replaced. Which do you think is the bigger threat to American workers?
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Trump is Schrodinger's president. He can be both an isolationist hate filled xenophobe and a globalist sellout at the same time, whichever his detractors think is worse in the moment!
Queue the mental gymnastics trying to show the president is a white supremacist yet is selling out his nation.
Think of the sort of person who will work with anyone and do anything to close the deal. But at the same time goes home to a gated community or walled mansion far removed from the plebeians.
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All Indians and Pakistanis are criminals. Got it.
About 9 out of 10 in my experience, but it helps to understand where they come from. In India and Pakistan the governments are run by corrupt thieves who won't lift a finger without a bribe. In fact government bureaucrats are so corrupt over there that practically the only thing they won't steal is a red hot stove. It's quite literally impossible to get anything official done in India or Pakistan without at least a few bribes and the laws are such that just about every transaction in life passes through the domain of some petty bureaucrat with his hand out for a bribe. In other words, it's completely corrupt over there. The problem arises when these Indians and Pakistanis come to a comparatively more honest country, like the United States, where we don't run things that way. They start using their old bag of tricks and then are surprised when Americans or Europeans call them out on it. You see, in their minds laws are nothing more than rules made to be broken or bypassed, morals don't even enter into their calculus on such matters.
It won't "end" until H1B visas are substituted for a different type of visa: an alien resident visa (aka a "Green Card"). H1B program is meant to bring skilled workers to the country. If they can't leave their employers on a whim, they are not employees. They are indentured servants. Their path to citizenship is delayed by 4-5 years. Some even feel entitled at the end of that hazing path to pick up the whip to become the "master". Those two are likely the result of this. End their second-class-citizens status or you'll never solve the "not enough people pursue careers in tech" problem. It's not about salaries. It's about endemic lowering of the work-place status of the people in tech. It has all the glory of a mailroom, just with more money.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Trump used Twitter to bypass the media and avoid having his words scrutinised before they entered his supporter's brains. That's why he is at war with the media - he's like a used car salesman trying to keep you away from the mechanic trying to tell you that it's a clunker.
Also, his supporters made great use of Facebook and other social media to spread fake news and memes.
So his administration needs Silicon Valley to be on board and not go too far with tackling fake news and displaying rebuttals to his tweets along side them. If they piss the tech companies off too much, their primary tool for conning people will be rendered useless.
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Wealth is not the determining factor.
You either believe in the idea of sovereign nations with borders, autonomous governments & a national identity
OR
you believe in open borders, unfettered immigration and subverting national sovereignty to international institutions.
Trump, Steve Bannon, the Koch brothers and Putin are nationalists.
George Soros & The Rothschilds are globalists.
Wealthy people tend to be globalists because they benefit from policies like free trade & open borders, but it's not a given that a rich person is a globalist