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(NewsNation) — Five radical successful Louisiana, including three constabulary chiefs and a section "business leader," worked unneurotic to falsify constabulary reports and perpetrate migration fraud, according to a 62-count indictment from the Western District of Louisiana’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The pursuing are accused of conspiracy, migration fraud, robbery, message fraud and wealth laundering offenses:
- Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle
- Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon
- Former Glenmora Police Chief Tebo Onishea
- Oakdale Ward 5 Marshal Mike "Freck" Slaney
- Chandrakant Patel, aka "Lala"
Alexander Van Hook, the district's acting U.S. attorney, laid retired the Justice Department's allegations astatine a quality league Wednesday.
From 2015 to July of this year, immigrants wanting to enactment successful the United States allegedly paid Patel, who past paid constabulary chiefs, to make fake incidental reports, Van Hook said.
A faux study — which had a terms tag of $5,000 successful astatine slightest 1 instance, according to the indictment — would let immigrants and their families to enactment successful the U.S. nether what is known arsenic "U nonimmigrant status."
The status is “set speech for victims of definite crimes who person suffered intelligence oregon carnal abuse” and tin assistance instrumentality enforcement's probe of the crime, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
To get a visa, constabulary reports are required to found certainty that idiosyncratic was a unfortunate oregon witnesser of a crime, Van Hook said.
The indictment alleges that each 5 men “produced and authenticated mendacious constabulary reports” of equipped robberies successful cardinal Louisiana to unafraid the visas.
“There was an antithetic attraction of equipped robberies, a ample fig of equipped robberies, of radical that were not from Louisiana … well, successful fact, the equipped robberies ne'er took place,” Van Hook said.
If convicted, the defendants would look up to 5 years successful situation for conspiracy, 10 years for visa fraud and 20 years for message fraud. Each could besides beryllium a good of up to $250,000 per count.
