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March Medvedeva faces 10 years in prison

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60-year-old William Jacobsen and 68-year-old immigrant from Ukraine Mar Medvedev appeared in court on charges of fraud in the course of which the pair took with immigrants at $ 30,000 for help in finding U.S. citizens willing to enter into sham marriages.

After that, the scammers were preparing couples for an interview to receive immigrants, green card through marriage, writes The New York Post.

The disclosure scheme occurred after Federal agents for several months listened to the phone Jacobsen and sent to the pair the agent with a recorder, which has offered to participate in a “sham marriage for money.” In the end, the crooks drove agent with potential wife immigrant.

In October 2018, the FBI sent an unnamed “confidential source”to the meeting with Jacobsen in his house in Brighton beach. During the meeting shell accomplice in the fraud recorded talks in the video, during the meeting, Jacobsen said that he arranged sham marriages between Americans and immigrants for 15 years.

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He then explained how the scheme worked, saying that an American citizen receives for participation in it $ 10 000, and immigrants for services charge $ 30,000. He said that the bogus pair it is necessary to create a joint Bank account, in addition, the U.S. citizen had to add the name of a fictitious couple in your rental contract.

Jacobsen later sent the agent a photograph of a woman with the caption: “Mina, 28 years old, Russian… a Very nice girl, decent, honest and with a great body,” subsequently, the agent met with the woman to discuss a potential marriage.

In written on the following day, a telephone conversation Jacobsen told the agent that the interview with immigration authorities is “simple”.

“The most difficult part is the marriage, because both sides are nervous, they have to go in there and kiss each other,” said crook.

The FBI has also established three other fictitious marriage, presumably coordinated by Jacobsen and Medvedeva. They were able to compute correspondence and telephone calls between the scammers and their customers.

In one of the correspondences the new “spouse” from Staten island wrote to Jacobsen, his fake marriage is stopping to make new lovers.

“How long do I have to be married?” — I complained to a U.S. citizen, according to court documents.

“Maybe another year”, — said Story, to which the citizen replied, “We’ve been married a year and a half”.

During the arraignment the Prosecutor Jacobsen Elizabeth Macchiaverna said that the investigation is not confident that his marriage with Medvedeva is legal, noting that they were married just 11 days after he divorced his third wife in 2008, and currently don’t live together.

According to court documents, the citizen of Ukraine who obtained US citizenship by marriage with Jacobsen.

Medvedev was released pending trial on bail of $ 100,000, meeting the purpose of collateral for Jacobsen has not yet been.

Both swindlers threatens till 10 years of imprisonment if their fault is proved.

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