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Seattle restaurant owner indicted in immigration scheme

01:10 PM PDT on Tuesday, June 23, 2009



SEATTLE - The owner of a chain of Thai restaurants in the Seattle area has been indicted on charges she paid her workers tens of thousands of dollars to enter into sham marriages with her relatives, allowing them to move to the U.S.

Varee Bradford, who operates five Thai Ginger restaurants in Seattle, Redmond, Issaquah and Bellevue, was arrested Tuesday and scheduled to make her initial appearance in federal court at 2:30 p.m. She is charged with one count of immigration fraud conspiracy and three counts of immigration document fraud.

A grand jury indictment cites four marriages between Thai Ginger workers and Thai nationals, three of whom were Bradford's relatives.


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