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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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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.
I think you have misunderstood these people's crimes.
Their real crime was that their illegal enterprise was too small.
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LOL. Your government is owned by globalist corporations. Clean out your headgear.
By electing a president of a multinational corporation who staffed his cabinet with globalist billionaires? Yeah, sure, bro.
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.
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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Indictments are one thing, but actual scalps are another.
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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?
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
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.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
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.
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It wasn't globalisation that screwed the Weimar economy. It was the fine slapped on them for being very naughty in 1914.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.
So now they're stealing American jobs from Indians in India? Mother fuckers!
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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.
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
So far, I see Collins is still on board, funding actually increased, regulations actually down, science visa processing actually streamlined (my colleague got his in 3 days, instead of Obama's 2-3 months). At NIH, they actually paid for travel this year (Obama was constantly cock-blocking the researchers from conferences).
Are you naive or stupid? Which approved budget the NIH is now spending? You need to look for the meaning of fiscal year and how government budgeting works before you spout this nonsensical statement.