Despite the defendant's ingenuity in implementing the fraud, he himself fell prey to another financial scam, the Justice Department said.
"Mr. Panesar preyed on the most vulnerable... these are people who wanted to live and experience the American dream," Curiel, the same judge who in 2016 was disparaged in racist attacks from President Donald Trump over his Mexican heritage, said."Mr. Panesar pretended he could be the one who provided the American dream. This offense is serious because of the heartlessness and callousness required to perpetuate this fraud on so many for so long.
Beginning in or about 2014, the defendants used this false persona as a means to entice immigrants, who were seeking lawful status, with promises of application processing and delayed deportation proceedings. In some cases, the indictment charged, Panesar and his co-conspirators threatened immigrants in order to intimidate them from reporting the fraud.
"Panesar's fraud scheme was particularly egregious as he attempted to use the veil of a U.S. government official to obtain millions of dollars from those trying to obtain legal status in the United States," Scott Brunner, an FBI special agent in charge, said in a press release,"Falsely claiming to be a federal official degrades the integrity of the system and therefore has serious consequences.
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