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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Judge sentences man for helping illegal aliens get false work permits

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Sunny Khanna was sentenced today to 18 months in prison by Judge John McBryde, following his conviction in September for aiding and abetting fraud and misuse of documents.

Khanna’s sentence is a downward departure from the United States Sentencing Guidelines in recognition of Khanna’s assistance in the prosecution of his co-defendants, Syed S. Shahabuddin and Shariq Ahmed Khan. Syed S. Shahabuddin, who pled guilty to conspiracy to transport and harbor aliens, will be sentenced next month. Another co-defendant, Shariq Ahmed Khan, was convicted by a federal jury in October on numerous related charges and will also be sentenced next month. Sunny Khanna, age 48, is a former resident of Colleyville, but now resides in Irving.

According to documents filed in court, beginning sometime prior to March 2001, Sunny Khanna and his co-defendants were part of a conspiracy to provide false paperwork to aliens illegally in the United States to allow them to get work permits. Khanna, along with his co-defendant Sharique Ahmed Khan, age 44, operated a business in Bedford, Texas, to aid aliens who wished to enter and work in the United States to obtain visas and work permits. Sunny Khanna was the registered agent and Vice President for Reference Data Consulting and Recruiting Inc. (RDCR). RDCR forfeited its charter on March 23, 2001, for failing to pay its franchise tax. However, RDCR continued to file H-1B petitions with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), many of which were in fact approved. Sunny Khanna appears as the signing official for all of the H-1B petitions (Form I-129).

The beneficiaries of the petitions filed by Sunny Khanna were mainly from Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka and Yemen. RDCR submitted approximately 95 petitions with the INS for H-1B visas. On December 18, 2002, the American Consulate in Chennai, India returned one of the H1-B petitions submitted by the defendant, Sunny Khanna, after it was determined during an interview that the beneficiary admitted that the documentation in support of the visa was counterfeit.

Co-defendant Syed S. Shahabuddin, age 40, admitted in court documents that he knew certain persons in the Chicago, Illinois, area who were in the country illegally, as they had either come to the United States as visitors or students who overstayed their visas. Shahabuddin learned that these people would be able to get work authorizations through Sunny Khanna and Sharik Ahmed Khan, so he agreed with Khan that he would transport them safely to Dallas to obtain the paperwork.

RDCR charged aliens approximately $5,000 to submit petitions for work visas to the INS, with $2,000-$3,000 of that amount paid to the government for fees. RDCR would use Worldwide Education Service to get diplomas and then “white-out” the name and alter the document to change the name to the name that appeared on the H-1B petition.

In one such instance, on February 15, 2002, Sunny Khanna and his co-defendant, Shariq Ahmed Khan, presented a forged and altered university diploma to the INS in Dallas, in connection with a Petition for Non-Immigrant Worker, for Manzoor Buchh. The document was required by the immigration laws and regulations to be filed in support of the petition. Although it was made under penalty of perjury, it contained a false statement, that is, that the alien had been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Khanna knew that statement was false, in that he and Shariq Khan had manufactured the counterfeit diploma in Bedford, Texas. In support of the false statement, Khanna and Khan filed the counterfeit university diploma, which falsely purported to be a Degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

Source: U.S. attorney's office


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Rob_Sanchez Anonymous

I am glad that Pegasus News is reporting on this important story, but the title does not accurately describe the nature of the fraud, or the seriousness. This isn’t just another story about illegal aliens!

Sunny Khanna and his co-conspirators have been falsifying H-1B applications. They pulled off this scheme by falsifying education documents and by using a proxy company to sponsor the visas.

These aliens are not illegal because the H-1B visa will authorize them to work and live in the U.S. Nobody will know or care that their visas were fraudulent since they were signed off by the Dept. of Labor and the BCIS. They are now operating in the USA and what’s very scary is that our government doesn’t track the whereabouts of nonimmigrants such as H-1Bs. They may be working anywhere, even in our nuclear power stations, government research labs, or perhaps they are training to fly airplanes!

It’s very significant that the visas were given to aliens from Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka and Yemen because all of these countries have radical Muslim populations who want to send terrorist agents into the U.S. Even if they aren’t terrorists they could be here to do espionage or industrial spying. These people could be deadly national security threats.

Of the 95 petitions filed, only one of the aliens was denied a visa. That means 94 potential terrorists are working somewhere in the U.S. I hope the DHS is hunting these people down, but if previous history is any guide nothing will be done until a suitcase nuclear bomb is detonated in one of our cities.

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Gary Cohen Verified

Thank you Rob for this information. That is very interesting. Please feel free to post or provide us with further info on the topic (or any other topic of interest to you).

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spamster Anonymous

I agree with Rob Sanchez about the title downplaying the importance of this piece. You'll almost never see this stuff in the main stream media, which is why their market share will continue to erode in favor of smaller shops.

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Blair Lovern Staff

I share your concerns about national security and the mainstream media. I really do. But I'm the one who posted this story and I can't say these guys are running around America with a suitcase nuke, if they are security threats, etc. I have no idea. I can only tell you what the U.S. Attorney's office says.

If you know of any specific information regarding the people in this story, I ask you to please let us know. If you know of any security threats anywhere else, please let us know.

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Dr_Gene_Nelson Anonymous

It is important to understand that about 40% of illegal aliens in the U.S. are people who have either overstayed the term of their work visa or are student or tourist visa entrants who have never left.

My wife and I lived in Carrollton for 13 years. I have a Ph.D. in biophysics. (The thesis topic suddenly became relevant about six weeks ago. I worked with Polonium-210, the stuff that killed Litvinenko in London.)

Even with my qualifications, I was being displaced by cheap, pliant nonimmigrant visa holders. I have had many bouts of unemployment. I was an activist for visa reform while I lived in Carrollton. I testified twice in the U.S. House of Representatives against H-1B visa cap increases, and twice to the National Academy of Sciences.

I had nine LTEs published in The Dallas Morning News (of the approximately 100 that I submitted.) I was featured on Channel 8 News in 1998, was the lone advocate for the employment rights of experienced American citizens at the KERA studios on McCuistion in May, 2004.

I had a hunch that there was some big money involved in H-1B cap raising. About 14 months ago, I learned that Microsoft hired lobbyist Jack Abramoff to procure increases in 1998 and 2000.

If you want to learn more, email me at c0030180[at]airmail.net

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lauretteelsberry Anonymous

I was pleased to see the news about the H1-b fraud ring exposed. There is very little in print about the extent of fraud in the alien jobs program in this country. Interestingly, right there in Dallas there is a huge repository of pending permanent labor certification applications which will be approved for more than 100,000 aliens to work in jobs where there are certainly US workers available for those jobs that actually exist. Many of the applications, however, are bogus - based on bogus jobs in bogus companies. What gives me the authority to say that? For years I worked in the labor certification program, calling to the attention of DOL and the Immigration Service the tricks and schemes pulled by unscrupulous attorneys and near illiterate immigration consultants to take in big bucks from aliens wanting to "purchase" jobs in this country. Now and then there were federal investigators willing to listen and to attempt to get some of these sharks prosecuted. For the most part, however, there was a cover-up of the corruption in the labor certification program. Regarding the H1-b program, this is how the aliens get their start: Getting some sham references - education and/or work background - and then getting a "facilitator" to line up an "employer" to offer a "job" to the alien. The process for the H1-b visa is computerized (no human looks at it), and the visa is generally always granted. Work a few years (or maybe not even work) and then put in a permanent application (also computerized now) and get your green card. Most likely no one is going to check on what you are doing, or what you are getting paid; and your profession as an accountant may mean that you are actually a bean-counter in your uncle's 7-11. No matter.

I could go on and on - and have in the past - but not even legislators seem to care. Unfortunately, the momentum of bringing in aliens to supplement our failing social security tax reserve, and the desire to merge the US into a North American government entity which will wipe out our own Constitution, is too strong.

Check with the DOL Dallas office and ask about the office which has the thousands upon thousands of pending permanent labor certifications. Ask what checks and balances they have to assure that US workers are given consideration for the "jobs" and that the jobs exist and are truly those where there is a bona-fide shortage of US workers. Whatever they respond, you can be sure that it is not true.

Laurette Elsberry

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Rob_Sanchez Anonymous

*“But I'm the one who posted this story and I can't say these guys are running around America with a suitcase nuke, if they are security threats, etc. I have no idea.”*

Bravo Blair!

That’s the whole problem in a nutshell! Nobody has any idea who these people are, why they are here, and what they are doing. I do mean nobody, not even the DHS. They could have used their H-1B visa to work at the local doughnut shop, or they could be using it to infiltrate a nuclear power plant. Either way they are taking jobs away from American citizens.

The foreigners who got these H-1B visas were in the U.S. illegally. H-1B rules don’t allow illegal aliens to apply for visas, so all their visas are invalid. To make matters worse, these particular foreigners criminally defrauded our immigration system by forging fake diplomas and probably all sorts of other documents. One thing for sure, they weren’t undocumented immigrants!

At a minimum every single one of these people should be hunted down and deported. That won’t happen because:

a) The federal government has no intention of enforcing existing immigration laws.

b) Even if a federal agent wanted to track these scofflaws down he wouldn’t have the tools to do it. Of course that’s partly because of the reckless lack of desire to enforce the laws.

So, since nobody knows what these H-1Bs are up to, or where they are, we will just have to wait and see if they have malicious intent on our society. Of course if they are professional spies they may never be caught, and if they are terrorists we may never know that they were one of these H-1Bs unless they blow themselves up. Is that a smart way of running a guest worker visa program?

I just hope all of you understand that the proposals for new guest worker visas are at least 1000 times larger than H-1B. If any of those gets passed by Congress just imagine the mess we will have if the government runs these programs as well as they run H-1B, which would be the best case scenario.

In any case, I thank Pegasus for reporting this news. Without alternatives like this we have no way of finding out what is happening to our country. This is just one more example of how the mainstream media has failed us.

Rob Sanchez www.jobdestruction.info/

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Rob_Sanchez Anonymous

I forgot to add that Reference Data Consulting and Recruiting company lost its charter, which means that it can't sponsor H-1B visas. Since H-1B visas are dependent on the employer and can only be sponsored by the employer, all H-1B visas that were obtained through this company are out of status. If any company is employing these H-1B visa holders as a consultant to RDCR then they are violating the law because the visa is void.

Can the Dept. of Homeland Security account for the whereabouts of each one of the holders of these visas? Did they leave the country, are the still working here, did they get green cards, or are they just fugitives from the law?

Rob Sanchez www.jobdestruction.info/

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lauretteelsberry Anonymous

Let me add a further comment. I mentioned earlier that some aliens are not working in the jobs for which they were certified. How do I know that? I found out and so can the feds. Most H1-b records have the social security number (SSN) of the alien in the file. For those who don't, it is simple for investigators - state or federal - to get the number and have the DOL state employment agency run the SSN of the alien in its data base to see where he is (or is not) working. I did this thousands of time. Frankly, when I found an alien who was working as certified for the company specified, at the established prevailing wage, I would be absolutely astounded. Most of the time the alien was working for some other company at a higher wage, was not working at all or owned his own business, or was working elsewhere for a considerably lower wage.

The American worker has been a sucker all these years assuming that federal bureaucrats really believed that the alien certification program was legit.

So much for a representative government.

Laurette Elsberry

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