Immigration officer who took cash, egg rolls gets 2 1/2 years

[UncleBeer 244]

Talk about your "broken immigration system in desperate need of reform".

Immigration officer who took cash, egg rolls gets 2 1/2 years

An immigration officer who demanded and received thousands of dollars in bribes and in one case, a couple of hundred egg rolls, in exchange for favorable treatment in citizenship or residency applications was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in federal prison.

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Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, an eight-year official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Santa Ana, pleaded guilty this year to receiving bribes as a public official between July 2011 and May 2013. As an immigration service officer, Nguyen had the power to approve or deny applications for immigration benefits, authorities said.

In one case, she received $1,000 for approving a permanent residency status; in another, she had an applicant purchase egg rolls she said she needed for a big party; in a third case, she asked for and received $2,200, unaware that federal authorities were surveilling her.

[Mike and Yaoling 46]

I wonder how they would even know she worked there to make a bribe. I'm unsupervised though. Corruption is as old has humanity itself.

[Mark88 183]

Egg rolls? Kind of funny.

[Jawaree 717]

Yep...egg rolls makes me go hmmmm....winder is he was over-weighr