A Chicago attorney was indicted on federal fraud charges for providing false and fraudulent information to US authorities to obtain immigration benefits for his foreign national clients, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
According to the DOJ, Gerardo Dean, who owned a law office in Chicago, conspired with a company employee to file fraudulent H-1B and EB-2 visa petitions representing that foreign nationals from the Philippines had managerial, supervisory, or higher-level jobs waiting for them at the company, when in reality they would work as staff or registered nurses at lower rates of pay.
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