NEW YORK, New York, CMC:
Prosecutors here said last Friday that more than a dozen Guyaneseimmigrants who fell prey to a scam being run by a man posing as animmigration law now face deportation.
Prosecutors said Wilmer Rivera Melendez, who pleaded guilty to chargesincluding grand larceny, promised to get green cards for at least 14illegal migrants from the Caribbean nation.
They said the 60 year-old Melendez charged his victims at leastUS$75,000 for ‘misguided efforts that ended up spurring deportationproceedings’ but ‘because of his bad advice’ the Guyanese now face theprospect of being sent out of the country.
Defence lawyer Russell Paisley said Melendez “never claimed to be an attorney or promised the immigrants anything”.
Melendez was released from a Georgia prison in 2006 after serving nearly two years for bigamy.
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