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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."
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I've been waiting for the Trump administration to get to the H1Bs.
We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism.
Is anyone surprised given their names? People that grew-up outside of the US just aren't exposed to our moral and ethical systems. Every Indian or Pakistani I've worked for has broken the law. They just don't care.
The "alleged" behavior is wrong in so many ways it's hard to even know where to begin. Damaged parties include the US government,
the LEGAL US workers who didn't get jobs because of these swine, the illegally "imported" workers who were quite likely screwed by
the perpetrators skimming significant percetages of their wages, etc.
It's a shame these pieces of shit couldn't just be stoned to death as a public example.
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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That's not even a dent in this problem. Laundering H1B visas is the mainstay of the IT industry.
Got me thinking for a second there, didn't know how many universities there were here in 'merica. In case anybody gets asked on Jeopardy, it's 2474. Not quite 3M, but still almost 50 ***per state***!!!
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
Doing the fraud Americans won't do.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
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.
When I was growing up, I'd hear big engineering companies loudly say this while simultaneously having constant layoffs of all the STEM people they did employ. (Okay, it was mostly aerospace, but still.)
Now I hear big tech companies also saying this, while seemingly focusing on a handful of universities they actually pay attention to for recruiting efforts. (Didn't go to Stanford? You might as well not have a STEM degree.)
Then again, I can say that there is an extreme shortage of Americans with *graduate* level STEM degrees. Just go into any grad-school area of any major STEM department at any university. Just try and find the Americans there. Good luck if you even get past one hand in counting them.
(Undergraduate, on the other hand, has plenty of Americans.)
I'm wondering if this is actually news (e.g. that enforcement is starting to happen) or if this has been going on and just not reported? H1-B visa fraud is nothing new. There's videos on youtube with lawyers talking about strategies to game the system. I've known people laid off and promptly replaced by H1-Bs, which by definition is illegal since there was already a qualified American.
So I gotta ask, is this really news? Or just reporting?
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He's also appointed former top level Goldman Sachs employees.
The difference is that some of Trump's people USED to be paid by Goldman Sachs.
Hillary (and Obama) were ACTIVLEY BEING PAID by Goldman Sachs.
Just do a quick search at how much GS has contributed to Hillary (~$1 million) vs. Trump ($0).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Indictments are one thing, but actual scalps are another.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
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
..if they actually enforced the law across the board...
will believe it when I see it.. (along with the banksters also waiting in the same mugshot line..)
There are a lot of staffing agencies pulling this kinds of shit from H1B fraud to student visa, to visitor visa fraud.
They are working and replacing American employees and getting paid a fraction of the wage they should be getting.
But this is a start (or a show of attempt at fixing the issue).
I think you need to look past this to see other interpretations.
1) Sacrificial lambs? The real beneficiaries of H1Bs are much bigger than this and rather than see the goose that laid the golden egg killed, some fall guys at the fringe were necessary to promote the idea that visa abuse is prosecuted, everyone else is following the law, etc.
2) Eliminate competition -- these two guys were undermining someone else's business and were seen as a thorn in their side. It's like a drug dealer calling the cops on another drug dealer.
3) Punish some guys from the wrong social class -- a combination of 1 & 2, really, but make the H1B bad guys "foreigners". I mean, they're probably *terrorists*, too, we should make sure only "Americans" profit from this program.
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.
The name of the company is the only thing that brought me in here. Seriously who would take a name like Dynasoft Synergy seriously? Sounds like the kind of crap that a name-generator would spit out.
Now its time to indict the rest of them.
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
Got me thinking for a second there, didn't know how many universities there were here in 'merica. In case anybody gets asked on Jeopardy, it's 2474. Not quite 3M, but still almost 50 ***per state***!!!
From this wikipedia, there seems to be a lot less than 2,474 universities... I guess the number you mentioned is also included Devry, ITT Tech, U of Phoenix, etc.?
This is only state universities (i.e. universities that get funding from a state government). The two biggest universities in my town (University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) are not in that list, and they are definitely not diploma mills.
in the history of mankind. we went from two world wars and massive devastation, potential nuclear annihilation and communist dictatorships, to a completely changed over world with an internet and free trade, and statistically more peace than ever... so that we can have 400 dollar laptops.
your jobs were taken by robots and AI not by foreigners.
And "globalization" is somehow responsible for all that? We still have wars and massive devastation. There is currently a global refugee crisis, due to powers wanting to control the Middle East. We still live with potential nuclear annihilation. Meanwhile labor in first world economies is being asked to compete with labor from third world countries to benefit multinational corporations. Civil rights are being curtailed, justified by an overblown fear of terrorism (which is exacerbated by the afore-mentioned powers trying to control the Middle East). I don't really see how globalization benefits anyone but the ruling class.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Every time I check the comments, half seem fresh from Breitbart or Infowars. I guess some nerds that visit this site also spend too much time on Reddit and even 4chan and the propaganda being pumped out on those sites has worked on them very effectively. Soros is enemy #1, we all need to go back to the world as it was when every "developed" country was bombing the shit out of each other and trying to conquer the world all because I've been told immigration is keeping us from reaching true utopia and is why I'm not happy with my own life. Fuck that madness.
Ugh, and you're even your own sock puppet.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
they come ready-trained in whatever obscure tech you want them to be. And that training was _cheap_.
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Obligatory "indicted" reference.
Or you can be a moderate.
Meaning... what exactly?
A coincidence?
What is your caste?
Casteism