Senior Ice lawyer sentenced to prison for stealing immigrants' identities
Source: The Guardian
A senior lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing the identities of immigrants facing deportation and using them to to take out credit cards and run up more than $190,300 in debt.
Raphael Sanchez, formerly the lead attorney for the Seattle Ice office, also used the photograph of a murdered woman on some of the fake identities he created and claimed several deported immigrants as dependents to dodge tax collectors.
Sanchez, who for six years directed Ice legal actions for Alaska and the Pacific north-west, said self-hatred, loneliness and depression drove him to commit fraud.
“I pretended I needed no one and thought material things would bring me happiness, even if temporarily,” Sanchez, 44, said in a letter to the court. “I created an intricate, beautiful, yet soulless house of cards that suddenly came crashing down.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/ice-lawyer-raphael-sanchez-immigrant-identity-theft-sentence
They really are lowlife scum.
Beyond disgusting.
nauseatedly,
Bright
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