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24th October 2017, 09:58 AM
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DALLAS Victor Leos, 63, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $317,482 in restitution for falsifying immigration documents, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
Leos pleaded guilty in May 2017 to one count of conspiracy to commit false statements in connection with immigration documents. Leos was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on January 28, 2018.
This school district human resources executive perpetrated a fraud on numerous overseas teachers, his school district and the U.S. government, said Katrina W. Berger, special agent in charge of HSI Dallas. He upended all these lives and perpetrated this fraud for the most selfish of reasons personal profit. HSI will continue working with our law enforcement partners to identify and disrupt immigration benefit fraud and bring to justice those involved in these illegal schemes.
According to plea documents, Leos was employed by Garland Independent School District (GISD), located in Garland, Texas from 1998 to 2013. Leos was responsible for recruiting teachers from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Philippines to fill open teaching positions at GISD. From around 2007 to around 2012, Leos engaged in a criminal conspiracy with outside recruiters to recruit and hire foreign teachers that GISD did not necessarily need. Leos benefitted by receiving kickbacks in the form of inflated fees to teach orientation classes, travel, and other forms of remuneration. After the foreign teachers were employed at GISD on H-1B temporary visas, Leos knew they were unlikely to qualify for Form 9089s (Applications for Permanent Employment Certification). To further the conspiracy, Leos knowingly signed and filed falsified Form 9089s with the Department of Labor (DOL) to sponsor the teachers for employment-based permanent resident applications.
Leos admitted that from August 27, 2012 to December 6, 2012, he signed and filed thirty-eight Form 9089s for GISD in which he knowingly made false statements. In each Form 9089, Leos certified that all U.S. workers who applied for the job opening were rejected for lawful job*related reasons when Leos knew this was not the case. To support these false statements, Leos created recruitment reports which contained additional false statements regarding the number of U.S. applicants for the open positions and the reasons for the rejection of the U.S. applicants. Leos had these recruitment reports submitted to DOL to support the falsified Form 9089s that were also submitted.
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DALLAS Victor Leos, 63, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $317,482 in restitution for falsifying immigration documents, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
Leos pleaded guilty in May 2017 to one count of conspiracy to commit false statements in connection with immigration documents. Leos was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on January 28, 2018.
This school district human resources executive perpetrated a fraud on numerous overseas teachers, his school district and the U.S. government, said Katrina W. Berger, special agent in charge of HSI Dallas. He upended all these lives and perpetrated this fraud for the most selfish of reasons personal profit. HSI will continue working with our law enforcement partners to identify and disrupt immigration benefit fraud and bring to justice those involved in these illegal schemes.
According to plea documents, Leos was employed by Garland Independent School District (GISD), located in Garland, Texas from 1998 to 2013. Leos was responsible for recruiting teachers from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Philippines to fill open teaching positions at GISD. From around 2007 to around 2012, Leos engaged in a criminal conspiracy with outside recruiters to recruit and hire foreign teachers that GISD did not necessarily need. Leos benefitted by receiving kickbacks in the form of inflated fees to teach orientation classes, travel, and other forms of remuneration. After the foreign teachers were employed at GISD on H-1B temporary visas, Leos knew they were unlikely to qualify for Form 9089s (Applications for Permanent Employment Certification). To further the conspiracy, Leos knowingly signed and filed falsified Form 9089s with the Department of Labor (DOL) to sponsor the teachers for employment-based permanent resident applications.
Leos admitted that from August 27, 2012 to December 6, 2012, he signed and filed thirty-eight Form 9089s for GISD in which he knowingly made false statements. In each Form 9089, Leos certified that all U.S. workers who applied for the job opening were rejected for lawful job*related reasons when Leos knew this was not the case. To support these false statements, Leos created recruitment reports which contained additional false statements regarding the number of U.S. applicants for the open positions and the reasons for the rejection of the U.S. applicants. Leos had these recruitment reports submitted to DOL to support the falsified Form 9089s that were also submitted.
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