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Raphael Sanchez, the former chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing the identities of several immigrants’ identities.
Sanchez, whose annual salary was nearly $ 1,70,000 and and who had a net worth of more than $ 700,000 before he was forced to quit, was charged with stealing the identities of seven undocumented immigrants to commit wire fraud in February this year. As well as identity theft, the lawyer was also charged with committing wire fraud.
Basically, the top ICE lawyer used identities of undocumented aliens, including their social security numbers, to get credit cards and receive loans from unsuspecting banks, according to Law and Crime.
Sanchez would prey on immigrants targeted by the ICE who were undergoing chaotic immigration proceedings. This was the probable reason that none of the immigrants targeted realized that their identities had been stolen by Sanchez.