12/11/2020
2 arrested for human smuggling conspiracy and defrauding US government agencies
NEW YORK — A six-count indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) Thursday charging Dat Tat Ho and Manh Ngoc Nguyen with conspiring to defraud U.S. government agencies and alien smuggling for financial gain, and related crimes. The defendants allegedly smuggled Vietnamese aliens into the United States to work for illegally low wages at hair and nail salons in New York City and on Long Island. This investigation was conducted by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York (IRS-CI) and U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Region (DOL-OIG). Both defendants were ordered detained pending trial.
Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI); Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent-in-Charge; and Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Region (DOL-OIG), announced the indictment and arrests.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-arrested-human-smuggling-conspiracy-and-defrauding-us-government-agencies
