WHAT HEELS: Family Makes Mint Faking Marriages
Ajit Bhargava (ah-JEET bar-GAH-vah), his wife Nisha (NEE-sha), 56, and their daughter Runjhun (Roon-joon), 30, of Yorba Linda, CA were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud for arranging fake marriages between with homeless people or drug addicts and 21 aliens who wanted to remain in the U.S., reports The Associated Press:
Authorities said the Bhargavas ran immigration services company MPEagle Consultants in Cerritos, Calif., and charged as much as $60,000 to arrange bogus marriages for foreigners who came to the country on visas, mostly from India.
Authorities said the Bhargavas used the same witnesses, and sometimes, the same U.S. citizen spouse, on multiple green card applications, and had the couple take photographs in different locations wearing different outfits to make it look like they had a relationship. …
"They were just recycling marriage certificates. They were even using the same witnesses, a couple of applications had the same U.S. spouse," said Joseph Macias, who heads ICE's homeland security investigations in Orange County. "It got to the point where they didn't care. They thought they were just kind of above the law."
The couples who entered into phony matrimony have not been charged as of yet.
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