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Philadelphia, PA - A group of Russian-born immigrants made $3 million helping 380 asylum-seekers file bogus applications over a four-year period, federal authorities charged Tuesday.
David Lynn, 33, posed as an immigration lawyer and coached natives of eastern Europe on how to claim persecution on religious, sexual orientation or other grounds, prosecutors said.
He charged $8,000 per person or $10,000 to $12,000 per family, according to officials who said they found $560,000 in cash and two gold bars hidden in floorboards of Lynn's home during a 2007 raid.
Despite a reputation that spread through the eastern European community in northeast Philadelphia and adjacent Bucks County, only a handful of the applicants actually obtained asylum.
Lynn, also known as David Waisman, had not yet been arrested, but prosecutors said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials knew of his whereabouts. He is in the U.S. illegally, they said.
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Jul 29, 2008 at 05:46 PM bigwheeel Says:
Now he'll need asylum, himself (his self) (Or be locked up in an [insane] asylum!
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Jul 29, 2008 at 07:02 PM Anonymous Says:
bigwheeel
Do not impune the insane who know not what they do under legal determination!
Rather greedmongering and theft is punishable by law and perpetrator held accountable!
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Jul 30, 2008 at 01:49 PM bigwheeel Says:
I had no intention to IMPUGN (as opposed to IMPUNE)
the character of the unfortunate! Rather, a PUN was intended!!! The rebuke was correct. The spelling was not!!!