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A Yorba Linda woman was sentenced Monday to four months in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in fines for helping to run a visa fraud scheme that charged $60,000 to arrange sham marriages for citizens of India who wanted to remain in the United States.
Nisha Bhargava, 61, pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of possession of identification documents to defraud the United States, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
She was arrested along with her husband and daughter in April 2011 and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud.
The three operated now-defunct MPEagle Consultants at 20222 State Road in Cerritos, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents executed a search warrant.
The probe began in September 2009, when an agent noticed a pattern on visa applications from people who came to the U.S. on non-immigrant visas, such as those for students or tourists, and married low-income U.S. citizens, according to the federal complaint.
The family would recruit unemployed or poor U.S. citizens for $2,000 and arrange for them to marry immigrants.
The “married” couples would take photos of each other and change clothes to make it appear the pictures were taken on different days, and they would open joint bank accounts and “rehearse” their stories of getting together.
Clients would pay between $15,000 and $60,000 to obtain visas, prosecutors said.
Some of the American citizens would be shorted on the money they were owed, and some had to badger the Bhargava family to get paid the full amount, according to the complaint.
When some threatened to report the three to authorities, husband Ajit Bhargava would sometimes call their bluff and tell them the police would not believe a drug addict, prosecutors said.
Ajit Bhargava, 65, previously pleaded guilty and is expected to be sentenced July 25.
The couple’s daughter, Runjhun Bhargava, 35, also pleaded guilty and was allowed to attend a rehabilitation program in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
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Wonder how many babies were parachuted in to nearby Chino Hills, many Chinese India babies are born in the back hills of Yorba Linda and Chino? Knabe was suppose to clean this up, but doubtful if any reductions in Pacific flites.
Many RV Owners left Cerritos disgusted with the Nanny Parking and street cleaning ordinances, so left Cerritos and now reside in RV friendly Yorba Linda. Now Cerritos is left with many vacant RV pads.
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