Thread: AL-Moldovan citizen denies allegations he paid for sham marr

I hate to break the news to DOJ, Tom Perez, LULAC, LaRaza and the Hispanic coalition, but not every person that is illegal in Alabama is Hispanic.
DOJ doesn't seem to be interested in engaging for these illegals. They must not be the right ethnicity.

Moldovan citizen denies allegations he paid for sham marriages for himself, girlfriend
November 10, 2011

MOBILE, Alabama — Two Moldovan citizens living in Gulf Shores pleaded not guilty Wednesday to allegations that they entered into sham marriages with Americans in order to remain in the United States.

The indictment, charging Marina Petru Timus and Eugeniu Catarev with conspiracy and marriage fraud, is the latest in a string of marriage fraud cases pursued by federal prosecutors in Mobile over the last several months.

Authorities allege that Catarev paid an American woman in 2007 to marry him and arranged to have his girlfriend marry his manager at a Gulf Shores Hooters restaurant.

The Americans, Brian Condon and Christina Nichole Andress, have pleaded not guilty and face trial next month in U.S. District Court.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Katherine “Kitâ€

Moldovan who raised jurisdiction challenge in Mobile, 3 others plead guilty to marriage fraud

Published: Monday, January 23, 2012, 8:30 AM

By Brendan Kirby, Press-RegisterPress-Register

MOBILE, Alabama -- A Moldovan man who unsuccessfully challenged the jurisdiction of the federal court in Mobile pleaded guilty last week to arranging a sham marriage with an American woman.

Three other people also pleaded guilty to marriage fraud charges in other cases. They are among a dozen or so cases that federal prosecutors in Mobile have pursued over the past year in an effort to crack down foreigners marrying Americans in order to gain legal residency.

Eugeniu Catarev, 26, argued that the court did not have jurisdiction because immigration authorities already had approved his marriage to the American woman, but U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade rejected his argument.

Last week, Catarev admitted that he paid $900 to $1,200 in late 2006 or early 2007 to an American named Christina Andress so that he could obtain a green card. He also paid her $300 a month for about year, according to court records.
Andress has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.
In the other cases:

• Antonin Matusek and his girlfriend, Katerina Ondrackova, admitted that they entered phony marriages with Americans.

Matusek, 33, who came to the United States from the Czech Republic on a visitor visa in 2005, married Jessica Vogelsang in November 2009. The 2 had become friends through mutual acquaintances.

Ondrackova, 34, who came to the United States in 1999, entered a sham marriage with Kevin Walker in January 2007. Vogelsang awaits sentencing for her role in the scheme; Walker, meanwhile, has died.

• Renato Camara, who had been in the United States on a visitor visa since 2005, admitted that he promised to pay a co-worker at a restaurant $8,000 to marry him. He ultimately paid the woman, Angela Green, $3,000, and they were married in February.

Camara’s plea agreement states that the couple never lived together and, in fact, Green lived with another man before and after the fraudulent union.

In each case, the foreign citizens and their American partners went to Atlanta and lied to immigration officials about their marriages so that the foreigners could obtain permanent residency in the United States.

Prosecutors have agreed to recommend leniency for the foreign defendants, which likely will result in deportation. Camara’s lawyer, Cindy Powell, asked U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade to speed up her client’s sentencing hearing so that he could leave the country as soon as possible.

"He’s a Brazilian national," she said. "His history here is going to be limited. He’s ready to go back to Brazil." �

al.com

This is nothing new it happens with all kinds of ethnic groups and American people looking for a pay day..and has been going on for years.

Until about 10 yrs ago the Russian papers here advertised for these 'arrangements'.