Ukrainian-born man pleads to $7.9 million in immigration fraud
By David North on November 30, 2022
While we are all rooting for Ukraine, some individuals from that country do not warrant even a single cheer. Case in point: Oleksandr Morgunov, a resident of Key West and one-time illegal alien, who has just pleaded guilty to cheating IRS – and our Social Security and Medicare programs – of $7.9 million dollars.
How did he do that? As the reader might expect, he did it with others (also with Ukrainian names) by running a group of labor broker agencies that supplied illegal-alien workers to “hotels, bars and restaurants” over a period of five years, according to a Law360 article.
Two other people with Ukrainian names were indicted as well, and others have returned to Ukraine rather than face federal charges. Morgunov was on his way to Ukraine when he was arrested in a Dutch airport on a U.S. warrant; he subsequently was returned to the U.S.
Three aspects of the case are intriguing, none of which were mentioned in the Law360 reporting:
https://cis.org/North/Ukrainianborn-man-pleads-79-million-immigration-fraud
