immigration consultant from San Jose has been sentenced in federal court

[DigitalDrifter]

San Jose consultant sentenced for encouraging illegal immigration

SAN JOSE - A former immigration consultant from San Jose has been sentenced in federal court to one year and six months in prison for encouraging illegal immigration, mail fraud and submitting false tax returns.





Evelyn Sineneng-Smith, 68, was given the sentence Monday by U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte, who also imposed a $15,000 fine and ordered her to pay $43,550 in restitution to several victims to compensate for the fees they paid her.






Sineneng-Smith ran an immigration consulting business in San Jose from 1990 to 2008. Most of her clients were Filipino citizens who had come to the United States on visitors' visas, according to prosecutors.






She was convicted by a jury in Whyte's court in 2013 of two counts of encouraging illegal immigration for personal financial gain and two counts of mail fraud.






Those counts concerned two female clients who had obtained work in a residential healthcare facility while on visitors' visas and who were seeking labor certifications to become permanent residents. Sineneng-Smith assisted them in filing applications but failed to inform them they were not eligible to obtain permanent residence, according to prosecutors.






In January, Sineneng-Smith pleaded guilty to two additional charges of submitting false tax returns for the years 2002 and 2003.

San Jose consultant sentenced for encouraging illegal immigration

 

[whitehall]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

That's about right !!

 

[Steven_R]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

It's kind of like a "community organizer" is a black who shakes down local businesses and promises votes for Democrats.

 

[Pogo]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

It's kind of like a "community organizer" is a black who shakes down local businesses and promises votes for Democrats.

"Votes for democrats [sic]" or "votes" for anybody --- played no part here. She committed fraud, taking money from clients on false pretenses. That has nothing to do with "voting" for anybody.

Reading is a lost art.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

It's kind of like a "community organizer" is a black who shakes down local businesses and promises votes for Democrats.

"Votes for democrats [sic]" or "votes" for anybody --- played no part here. She committed fraud, taking money from clients on false pretenses. That has nothing to do with "voting" for anybody.

Reading is a lost art.

Meanwhile you can not understand simple english when it is provided to you.

 

[Pogo]

How do you get to be an "immigration consultant"? An illegal alien who speaks some english and promises votes for democrats?

It's kind of like a "community organizer" is a black who shakes down local businesses and promises votes for Democrats.

"Votes for democrats [sic]" or "votes" for anybody --- played no part here. She committed fraud, taking money from clients on false pretenses. That has nothing to do with "voting" for anybody.

Reading is a lost art.

Meanwhile you can not understand simple english when it is provided to you.

Then show us where the article makes any mention of "voting", Dumbass.