Kofi Amankwaa, a Ghanaian politician, has been sentenced to 6 years and one month in prison for his involvement in a large-scale immigration fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Amankwaa, a former immigration attorney, filed thousands of fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), exploiting vulnerable clients and undermining the U.S. immigration system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amankwaa’s scheme, which ran from 2016 to 2023, involved instructing clients to sign false petitions claiming they were victims of abuse by their U.S. citizen children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He would then use these petitions to request advance parole travel documents, enabling his clients to travel abroad and return to the U.S. Amankwaa charged his clients between $3,000 and $6,000 for his services, plus administrative fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of his plea deal, Amankwaa agreed to forfeit $13.4 million and pay $16.5 million in restitution to his victims. His license to practice law in New York was suspended in 2023 and later revoked in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghanaian Politician Kofi Amankwaa Sentenced to 6 Years for Immigration Fraud<\/p>\n
Kofi Amankwaa, a Ghanaian politician, has been sentenced to 6 years and one month in prison for his involvement in a large-scale immigration fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Amankwaa, a former immigration attorney, filed thousands of fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), exploiting vulnerable clients and undermining the U.S. immigration system.<\/p>\n
Amankwaa’s scheme, which ran from 2016 to 2023, involved instructing clients to sign false petitions claiming they were victims of abuse by their U.S. citizen children. <\/p>\n
He would then use these petitions to request advance parole travel documents, enabling his clients to travel abroad and return to the U.S. Amankwaa charged his clients between $3,000 and $6,000 for his services, plus administrative fees.<\/p>\n
As part of his plea deal, Amankwaa agreed to forfeit $13.4 million and pay $16.5 million in restitution to his victims. His license to practice law in New York was suspended in 2023 and later revoked in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}