Woman Charged With Scamming Illegal Immigrants
Rockland County Woman Was An Illegal Immigrant Herself

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP)― A 48-year-old woman is being charged with scamming illegal immigrants in Rockland County - by taking money to get them with green cards and citizenship.

Spring Valley Police say Olha Lutay's is charged with grand larceny and scheming to defraud.

Police say she took about $17,000 each from at least a dozen immigrants who thought she had special connections with Immigration and Naturalization Services.

Lutay is a Ukrainian national who also is in this country illegally. Police say she targeted the large Russian, Polish and Ukrainian community living in Spring Valley and Monsey.

Police say when people began pressuring her for their documents and she would refund their money with a bad check.

Spring Valley Police ask anyone who may have done business with Lutay to call them.

She is being held in the county jail on $75,000 bail.