Sandipkumar Patel lured victims from India, took money from them illegally.
By the American Bazaar Staff
NEW YORK: An Indian American man from Edison, New Jersey, Sandipkumar Patel, 41, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating an eight-year scheme to falsify employment certifications to facilitate the illegal entry of Indian immigrants into the United States and to filing a false tax return.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Chief Richard Weber of Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and Director Bill A. Miller of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) made the announcement, according to a press release.
Patel pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls of the District of New Jersey to conspiring to defraud the United States and to filing a false federal income tax return. Sentencing is scheduled for January 6, 2015.
According to court documents filed with the plea agreement, from 2001 until 2009, Patel sponsored the visa applications of Indian nationals by falsely claiming to provide employment for them in the United States. Patel falsely certified on the visa applications that he would employ the immigrants in various technical fields at several New Jersey companies, thereby facilitating their illegal entry into the United States. Over the course of the scheme, immigrants paid Patel thousands of dollars for the false certifications to fraudulently secure the visas.
To disguise the scheme, Patel issued payroll checks and other payroll forms. Patel required the immigrants to return the money from the checks and also to reimburse him for his payroll tax expenses, said the Justice Department. Patel used the fraudulent pay stubs and payroll checks to support false applications to extend the visas, and Patel charged the immigrants fees for the visa extensions.
As a result of falsely carrying the immigrant employees on his payrolls, Patel overstated his payroll expenses on his federal income tax returns by more than $1.4 million over four years, under-reporting his tax obligation by over $400,000 for those years.
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I know a H1B doing this right now. This H1B is paying someone like Sandipkumar Pootel to falsify employment. THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER. YES. THE H1B SLAVES ARE TO BLAME AS WELL. It’s not just these body shops or executives facilitating the scam. EVERYONE is in on it including the fresh from poo fields Vijay or Sanjay or whoever it is from India.
The Indian education system has created a different system of “values” for Indians. For them, lying, cheating, and stealing US trade secrets are not the issue. The issue is taking over the US IT sector to make it the Indian back office. Indians have the morality of “whatever it takes”, and believe that the US public is too stupid to realize what is happening. Unfortunately, they are mostly right.
We must Abolish All H-1B/L1 Visas ASAP!
A Daily Event: Another Indian Pleads Guilty to Visa Fraud in United States
NEW YORK: A 41-year-old Indian has pleaded guilty for running an eight-year long visa fraud scheme to facilitate the illegal entry of Indian immigrants in the U.S. by sponsoring their visa applications and falsely claiming to provide employment for them in the country.
To learn more about the corrupt and controversial H-1B Visa law, please search by title for the PDF version of the 2014 article, “The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit.” The article by the same title published in 2007 provides relevant background.
this is how the poojoo operate, no surprises here…stealing, lying, cheating, all just part of a normal day’s work for them
The H1B Visa Program is a corrupt law passed by the US Congress at the behest of large corporations, who are the authors of the law itself.
The H1B Visa Program should be eliminated altogether.
One down, 100,000 to go.
H1-B employers should be called by their true name: “Slave Traders”.