I believe this area is infested with terrorist cells. Way too many Arab types to be here legally, or maybe James Ziglar just hasn't sent their letters out telling them they need to apply for amnesty if they want to remain legally.
||||||||Investigators in Kooritzky's case said they were amazed that neither the Virginia Employment Commission nor the U.S. Labor Department noticed the volume of applications coming in from individual restaurants. In addition to the Silver Diner's petitions, 173 requests came from a Shoney's in Manassas; 184 from an Applebee's in the Alexandria area; 108 from an Outback Steakhouse in Arlington; and 230 from two Chili's restaurants, one in Springfield and another in the Alexandria area.
In each instance, the application said the potential cook would be paid $12.05 an hour, according to the affidavit written by Andrew H. Shea, a Labor Department special agent. When Shea visited the restaurants, managers at each said they had not filed for labor certifications and that they don't pay starting cooks that much.||||||||
I still don't see why we're bombing Afghan people but allowing these abuses in our immigration laws.
This should be tried as treason.
Men charged with immigration fraud
By CLARISSA SPASYK
Journal staff writer
Deborah Munoz didn't understand why she was mailed U.S. Department of Labor forms about the immigration status of people she had never met.
An assistant manager of the Chili's restaurant at Potomac Mills, Munoz said she never signed labor certification applications for illegal aliens, despite the fact that federal investigators saw her signature appear on 230 filings.
``Obviously someone was using me in some fashion," she said Wednesday about the arrest of two Northern Virginia men who allegedly forged the names of local employers on behalf of immigrants seeking green cards.
Samuel G. Kooritzky, 63, of Vienna, and Ronald W. Bogardus, 65, of Arlington, were charged with immigration fraud Wednesday, said Paul J. McNulty, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Kooritzky and Bogardus have been charged with repeatedly filing fraudulent applications for alien employment certification with the Labor Department. They are suspected of filing between 1,425 and 2,700 fake applications.
Kooritzky, an attorney and owner of the Capital Laws Center in Arlington, Langley Park, Md., and Washington, D.C., specializes in immigration law, according to an affidavit. Bogardus is an engineer for the U.S. State Department.
McNulty said immigrant clients paid Kooritzky and Bogardus at least $8,000 for filing their applications.
``[They] are alleged to have misused their positions of trust to perpetrate a fraud not only against the government, but against those individuals seeking employment within our nation's borders," McNulty said.
Kooritzky and Bogardus could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
In most of the applications investigators pored over, Kooritzky was the attorney representing both the alien and employer, according to the affidavit. Some of the applications had bogus job advertisements attached to them.
Munoz said she was alarmed when a supervisor noticed a want ad for a cook in a local paper that told prospective employees to call her about the job.
``I was concerned my privacy was being invaded," she said.
Bogardus often visited managers at local restaurants and companies, identifying himself as a State Department employee who helped foreign nationals find jobs, according to the affidavit.Munoz said she became suspicious after Bogardus visited her at work.
``People [job-seekers] come in by themselves," she said.
Mohd Faraneh, general manager at Shoney's Restaurant in Manassas, said he became concerned when a man stopped by asking about the status of his new job and Labor Department forms.
``I didn't know what he was talking about," said Faraneh, a Stafford resident and native of Jordan. ``I was shocked [people] were using my name on forms and making lots of money."
On Wednesday, Bogardus was being detained at an undisclosed location until he appears before U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell for a detention hearing at the federal courthouse in Alexandria. The hearing is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Kooritzky was released on the condition that he checks in with pretrial services, surrenders his passport and agrees not to leave the area, said Sam Dibbley, U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman.
Kooritzky's appearance before Sewell is scheduled for 3 p.m. Aug. 12.
http://cold.jrnl.com/cfdocs/new/ffx/story.cfm?paper=ffx§ion=fp&snumber=09The FBI would do well to stake out the Virginia DMV branch near Tyson's Corner to locate said Arabs....
