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A former immigration official and his sister pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud and conspiracy charges in a million-dollar scheme to arrange sham marriages in order to obtain illegal green cards.
The former official, Phillip Browne, 41, worked until December 2005 as a district adjudication officer for the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services in Manhattan. His sister, Beverly Mozer-Browne, 50, once owned a financial and legal service business in Queens called Help Preparers Professional Services. The authorities say the business was a front for the procurement of illegal permanent-residence documents, known as green cards.
Mr. Browne and Ms. Mozer-Browne were originally charged in the scheme with nearly two dozen others in June 2006. All but one of them, Wendy Harrison, have either pleaded guilty or been convicted in the case. Ms. Harrison, the authorities said, is a fugitive.
2 Plead Guilty to Falsifying Green Cards
Seeded on Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:02 AM EDT
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