Is this a nation of laws? [Illegal Alien living in multimillion-dollar house convicted]

Here is a link to an article about the conviction last week: Evans contractor Hugo Diaz sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.

Our nation ceased being a nation of laws the moment Obama and Holder initiated Fast and Furious. It actually probably happened long before but F&F is in our face and the contempt the Administration is showing for Congress, the American People, the rule of law and our nation over all is disgusting beyond words.

The Government has lost all credibility.

Suburban Washington DC would cease to function without illegals. The leafblowers, lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, roofers, pool cleaners, tree trimmers, tire changers, restaraunt workers, daycare workers, hotel maids, painters, and car wash workers would vanish.

Who would put the shine on the brass ring?

Housing business, my Aunt Tilly.....that's just a front. We know from many, many other sources this guy hit the "Border Lottery" and was riding the US gravy train using multiple phony ID's. Read on.

The phony "just here for a better life" crowd who freely violate our borders and "do the jobs Americans won't do" have more criminal enterprises than you can shake a stick at.

<><>ICE's "documents and benefits fraud task force" found a common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several faked identitues for several thousand dollars each----the illegal then votes and rides the US gravy train under several names.

<><> Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities. And probably votes and collects US benefits under every single identity.

<><>June 26, 2010 An illegal using multiple identities was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.

<><> Hilderberto Salinas sold state drivers' licenses issued out of the state’s Motor Vehicle Agency in NJ to illegals with multiple identities who did not have the necessary id's....among 40 people who participated in the widespread ring. "Impoverished" illegals paid $2,500 to $7,000 apiece for the licenses.

<><> July 21, 2006----NJ BERGEN RECORD---Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said. The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses----for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said state police.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout.

After a search, police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####

<><> US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million. This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals. Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.

REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.

Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.

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IF---BIG IF---he filed IRS returns for his "business", L/E needs to be ready to look at (1) criminal tax fraud charges (2) deliberately misstated income, (3) falsified returns, (4) falsified official documents, (5) intentionally mislabeled personal expenditures as business expenses, (6) govt funds used fraudently, (7) fraudulent use of govt funds for lavish personal expenditures, (8) fraudulently declared personal expenditures as legitimate business expenses.

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Lots of support for him in the comments at your link!

Hugo Diaz will get credit for the six months he has served and will be recommended for deportation to his native Mexico after his release early next year.

He'll be recommended for deportation? I have a HUGE problem with this recommendation. The deportation bus needs to meet him at the prison gate and he needs to be blacklisted from ever entering the U.S. Again!

Our absurd tax code is the camoflage and glue used to obscure the tracks of criminal enterprises of every type.

Lots of support for him in the comments at your link!

Its about 50/50 in the comments of the news article link - the 50% in support likely being homeowners who used his services. Check out this sickening comment left in his support (wrong, wrong, wrong on SO MANY levels):

Let me be one of the first to leave this comment. This is a bunch of BS. murderers and child molesters do not get this much time. All the judge did was made an example out of this man. He served his time now let him go back home so us the taxpayers don't have to foot this bill any longer. And by the way I also work for the government and yes we also have an illegal alien working with us as well. Do you think the government went back and checked her green card after she got hired. NO THEY DID NOT. It expired not even 6 wks after she was hired. This is a bunch of crap and the judge needs to reconsider this mans sentence. The only thing he was guilty of was working his behind off. If the American people were not so greedy then he would not have had all this work. But no they want to charge you and arm and 2 legs to do anything. Thats why American people get illegal people to do there work because the American people are lazy. Heck look at us. Its not like it doesn't show.... Good luck Mr Diaz I hope something happens and this stupid sentence gets overturned. And btw you people leaving negative comments I bet you would get him to build your house instead of what the Americans want to charge you. Alot cheaper and built so much better

Yeah,,,, I read that one,,,, with my jaw on the floor!

Our absurd tax code is the camouflage and glue used to obscure the tracks of criminal enterprises of every type.

Ok---then L/E needs to check his bank accounts----ALL of them---personal and business.

The "Bank Secrecy Act" was passed to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting criminal enterprises, money laundering, tax evasion or other unlawful activities.

Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity that might be indicative of govt fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, and other financial crimes.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of funds to pay for personal and private expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies and vehicle purchases.

<><> To cover his tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of monies from federal and state sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for his own use.

<><> L/E is directed to get ahold of: (1) copies of checks, (2) wire transfers to Mexico, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records.

<><> L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC other accounts, to operate personal businesses. Fraud can also be facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intrabank transfers from business accounts into personal accounts.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for luxury homes, real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel and gifts from luxury outlets for wives and mistresses.

Taxpayers demand the Bank Secrecy Act be used to prosecute illegal fraud pronto.

someone or some people had to have been aiding and abetting this illegal alien millionaire. Did a bank wink and fail to check a fake SSN? was a U.S. citizen laundering the money? I think all the "business leaders" mentioned who were supporting him are worried he will flip in order to get a reduced sentence (hence the complaints about the sentence). I hope a lot of people are quaking in their boots, and I hope LE does its job - per your list.

Suburban Washington DC would cease to function without illegals.

I think suburban ANYWHERE (south of say New England...) would cease to function without illegals. The leafblowers, lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, roofers, pool cleaners, tree trimmers, tire changers, restaraunt workers, daycare workers, hotel maids, painters, and car wash workers would vanish.

Also, produce of all kinds (tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, apples, oranges, etc.) would all skyrocket in price--or be completely unavailable (as farmers would go bankrupt).

The solution is not to kick them all out--but to figure out a legal "guest worker" program something like they use in Switzerland....on a large scale.

Bus them in to work for a few months, then bus them back to their families in central America.

The primary reason illegals are here--is that our markets want--and need them, so business owners find them (very) hard workers, and hire them. Therefore politicians of both parties...dependent (ultimately, even with the Dems, who squeeze corps through unions)on businesses and agriculture...have no motivation to change the status quo.

I know business owners who hire illegals--and the reason they do, is they work very (very) hard, for (very) reasonable wages, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the risk. That's always the way it has been--in dealing with people from other countries raised dirt poor--they know how to work (much) harder than our own "poor" (who've been given everything all their lives).

Making the people that will come in, in any event, legal...through some sort of very revised guest worker system--is really the only real-life solution.

No one is going to kick out 12,000,000+ very productive workers. That would be a lose-lose situation for everyone--and, besides that--short of a police state....is simply impossible.

The Worker programs you suggest have been around for thirty years. They do something these illegal immigrant and some employers don’t like. The meet minimum wage, keep track of where they work and live, screen for criminal record and drug use, and make sure they go home. None of those restrictions were things these people wanted to comply with.

They wanted a money/freebie pond to swim in with you and I paying the bill. I don’t want a worker program that only leads to second class citizens as Europe has there. Why not just follow the damn laws?

They wanted a money/freebie pond to swim in with you and I paying the bill.

Exactly. Not to mention $4billion dollars per year in child tax credits for dependents living in Mexico, tax payer subsidized medical care, unemployment benefits (there is an article here about that), and subsidized housing - yes, you read that right...see MA.

These are exactly the sort of people who’ve nearly destroyed what was once a very profitable business for my family. To say that I despise them, is being very generous.