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    Little Rock woman sentenced in scheme to defraud undocumented workers

    THV 11 Staff, news source 4:56 p.m. CDT April 3, 2015

    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KTHV) – A Little Rock woman was has been sentenced for a scheme to defraud undocumented workers.

    Wendy Espinoza, a 32-year-old foreign national from Honduras who was living in Little Rock, was sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release on each count of Wire Fraud and Mail Fraud.

    Espinoza was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $541,520.

    Reports state that in 2007 and continuing through July, 2014, Espinoza devised a scheme to defraud illegal immigrants and to take their money by falsely representing that she could provide legal advice and services for them to obtain legal resident status in the United States.

    Specifically, Espinoza misrepresented that she worked with or for an immigration attorney and that she and or the attorney would prepare legitimate immigration documents for a fee. Espinoza in fact has no legal training and has never been associated with an immigration attorney. She would then state that she needed the individuals to pay various illegitimate "fees" and "fines" to continue the immigration process, such as a $10,000 "state pardon fee" and a $10,000 IRS fine. If those payments were not forthcoming, Espinoza threatened arrest, deportation, and, in one case, losing custody of their children.

    In order to comply with Espinoza's demands, the defrauded individuals arranged for payment from family members to accounts designated by Espinoza. During a search of Espinoza's residence in Little Rock, federal investigators found counterfeit documents that resembled the bogus Social Security Administration and immigration documents Espinoza had provided to some of the victims. Espinoza pleaded guilty to the charges in September 2014.

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    Do I understand that we are going to pay incarceration expense for incarcerating a foreign national who scammed illegal aliens? Don't we often just deport aliens for non-violent crimes committed against Americans? If I am right, who is the prosecutor, the Judge, and ICE attempting to impress? IF I'm wrong, please correct me!

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