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10 Aug 2007 08:11:38 PM |
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Immigration fraud snares Republican state representative. Faces 30-37 months. |
Cooper appeared Thursday morning before U.S. District Judge Jean C.
Hamilton and waived his right to be charged by a grand jury indictment
and pleaded guilty to two felonies.
He will be sentenced Oct. 19.
In addition to the prison term, Cooper must forfeit $50,000 paid by
his legal clients for his help in obtaining the fraudulent visas.
Cooper's cooperation is already helping in other cases, Crowe said.
In Seattle, Omega "Meg" Paulite, a Philippine-born U.S. citizen, was
arrested.
She was charged with selling Cooper more than 100 visa approvals
designated for the hospitality and temporary service industries, Crowe
said.
Cooper provided those visas to truck drivers.
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"Cooper developed a scheme to convince the government to issue
improper visas and otherwise to impede the lawful operation of the H2B
visa program in a number of ways," a news release issued by the
federal prosecutor's office in St. Louis said.
The release also stated that Cooper:
* admitted to the fraudulent creation of shell companies,
* used those shell companies to apply for visas to be used for other
companies,
* and deceived law enforcement about the immigration status of his
client's workers, and about the purchase of visas from other contracts
that were illegally transferred to his client's workers.
Cooper built his law practice on immigration law.
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1245545.html
Friday, August 10, 2007
Immigration fraud snares state representative
By Rudi Keller ~ Southeast Missourian
A New Zealand trucker.
A letter from the office of Nathan Cooper.
And a skeptical federal border guard.
Those were the ingredients that eventually led to the political and
professional demise of a state representative Thursday when a federal
prosecutor announced that Cooper pleaded guilty to two federal
felonies.
Cooper's scheme was uncovered when the trucker tried crossing the
Canadian border.
The trucker had in his possession a letter on Cooper's legal office
stationery that claimed he was waiting for a visa renewal to work for
another firm.
The letter was noticed by a federal border guard, assistant federal
prosecutor Jim Crowe said.
"It seemed odd to him," Crowe said of the guard's response.
"It probably would have worked real well with a state patrol person if
they had seen it."
Now Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican who serves the 158th district,
faces 30 to 37 months in prison.
He said he will resign his House seat.
He will also lose his license to practice law.
While the maximum penalty for the two crimes is 15 years, he is
cooperating with prosecutors to catch others involved in immigration
fraud schemes and will be given more lenient treatment for his
cooperation and because he has no criminal record.
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Harry
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10 Aug 2007 08:26:57 PM |
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November 02, 2006
Pelosi's illegal alien employees
Remember Linda Chavez? She had to withdraw from consideration for a cabinet
post because one of her employees was an illegal alien. So how about Nancy
Pelosi, who would be third in line for succession if she becomes Majority
Leader?
Investors Business Daily brings us the following information about her
family-owned vineyard.
As Peter Schweizer notes in his best-selling expose of liberal hypocrisy,
"Do As I Say (Not As I Do)," part of the fortune of this defender of the
working man is a Napa Valley vineyard worth $25 million that she owns with
her husband. The vineyard produces expensive grapes for high-end wines. Napa
grapes bring up to $4,000 a ton compared with $300 a ton for, say, San
Joaquin grapes.
But Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm
Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion
wineries. [....]
Which makes Pelosi's steadfast opposition to any attempts to enhance
border security and stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. all
the more interesting since she seems to be among those rich employers who
financially benefit from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor. [....]
Nor has Pelosi been a fan of employer sanctions against the hiring of
illegal aliens. In 2003, she accused immigration officers of conducting
"terrorizing raids" on Wal-Mart stores that led to the arrest of more than
300 illegal aliens.
Loraine Stewart, a farmworker advocate with Napa Valley Community Housing,
in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article estimated that half of the migrant
labor force in the valley consisted of undocumented workers, without whom
"not one bottle of wine would get made here."
Read the whole thing to get a picture of the actual practices of this
wealthy hypocritical liberal. Aside from IBD, none of the major press seems
the least bit interested in this scandal.
Hat tip: Jack Kemp
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