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Sham Marriages: A Multimillion-Dollar Fraud | Salt Lake City News
Eleven New Yorkers face serious charges for orchestrating one of the largest sham marriage schemes in U.S. history—fraudulently setting up over a thousand fake marriages to secure green cards for foreign nationals, mostly from China, while raking in tens of millions of dollars. Defendants allegedly staged weddings with fake photos, joint bank accounts, and even prenuptial agreements to fool immigration officials, with foreign nationals paying up to $100,000 and American citizens receiving up to $30,000. Prosecutors call it a multimillion-dollar operation designed to bypass immigration laws…
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