NYC pastor from Mamaroneck sentenced for scamming immigrants
January 27, 2010

Comments (5) Recommend (1)

NEW YORK — The Mamaroneck pastor of a New York City storefront church is going to jail for scamming more than 100 immigrants by promising to get them U.S. visas and legal status.






Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 57-year-old Gregorio Gonzalez of Mamaroneck was sentenced Tuesday to two to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to grand larceny earlier this month.



Prosecutors say Gonzalez met with the mostly Ecuadorean victims at his Corona church and other Queens locations. They say Gonzalez, his sister and another man collected more than $840,000 in fees for the immigration documents.



The two defendants were sentenced earlier.



Defense lawyer Joseph Schioppi did not immediately return a call for comment.



http://www.lohud.com/article/20100127/N ... immigrants