10 Executives Indicted in Scheme to Use B-2 Aliens as Workers
By David North, October 24, 2016
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Back in 2011, a retail store executive must have said "Let's stop using those expensive H-1B workers and switch to foreign workers on tourist visas."
A Virginia-based business, which runs some of those kiosks you see in malls, did just that and now 10 of its executives and other staffers face 34 criminal counts and the prospect of years in federal prison. The story came to light when one of the 10 pleaded guilty, an act that in similar circumstances leads other conspirators to do the same thing. (Aliens on tourist visas are not allowed to work in the United States.)
An observer can look at the case as either a glass half full or half empty; in the former case it is good that the feds caught up with the scheme, in the latter one wonders why this multi-million dollar fraud was able to survive for five years before it was discovered.
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