California Woman Helped Hundreds of Illegal Migrants Get Green Cards with False Medical Records
Olivia Rondeau6 May 2025397
A California woman has been convicted of aiding hundreds of illegal migrants in their efforts to obtain green cards by creating fraudulent medical records without authorization from a doctor, prosecutors said.
Chantelle Lavergne Woods of San Luis Obispo County pleaded guilty Monday to one count of presentation of false immigration document or application and one count of possession with intent to distribute phendimetrazine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California announced.
The 54-year-old woman had been operating a clinic called “Medical Weight Loss and Immigration Services” that served as a front for her scheme beginning in February 2021, when prosecutors said she “knowingly misused the identities of three physicians to create hundreds of fraudulent documents pertaining to medical examinations of individuals seeking to register for a lawful permanent resident (LPR) card – commonly known as a ‘green card’ – or otherwise adjust their immigration status.”
One of the doctors Woods used to create the fake medical exam documents was “deceased,” the press release stated.
She further admitted that she used the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number of that deceased physician to order more than 150,000 tablets of controlled substances — including testosterone, codeine, Xanax, and weight-loss medication.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/05/06/california-woman-helped-hundreds-of-illegal-migrants-get-green-cards-with-false-medical-records/
