DHS Official Admits Aiding Immigrants for Bribes

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Department Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Pocketing More Than $600,000 in Payments

By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 30, 2006; 2:02 PM

A Department of Homeland Security supervisor pleaded guilty today to pocketing more than $600,000 in bribes in exchange for falsifying immigration documents to help Asian immigrants obtain U.S. citizenship.

Prosecutors said Robert T. Schofield issued fake documentation for hundreds of immigrants during an 10-year scheme he ran out of his Fairfax County office. Schofield, 57, was a supervisor for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which processes immigration applications, until he resigned in November.

Court documents said Schofield employed a network of brokers who brought him immigrants needing citizenship, a green card or entry into the United States. Earning up to $10,000 per immigrant, he used some of the money to buy his $387,000 Fairfax County home and to pay down the mortgage, the documents said. When Schofield was arrested in June, federal agents found $3,900 cash in his jacket pocket inside his office.

When he was arrested, Schofield supervised a staff of nine at the immigration agency's Washington District Office. He had been the acting assistant director for examinations there from 1998 to 2004, supervising 50 employees.

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Well, I feel safer already. How about you guys? DHS is turning into an even bigger shitshow than previously thought.

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1. here's the link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000603.html