A Romantic Start that Turned into a $20 Million H-1B Fraud Case. http://cis.org/north/20-million-h-1b-fraud-case http://cis.org/north/20-million-h-1b-fraud-cas

A Romantic Start that Turned into a $20 Million H-1B Fraud Case. http://cis.org/north/20-million-h-1b-fraud-case http://cis.org/north/20-million-h-1b-fraud-case Excerpt: This was no one-off offense, like a solitary bank robbery. This was crime on a massive, industrial, assembly-line scale. There are, in this indictment: - Six defendants - Seven different federal crimes charged - 27 counts in the indictment, involving - 800 illegal migrants, resulting in - $20 million in ill-gotten gains to be forfeited. The scale is breathtaking, and the feds' ignorance of it for years is as if the Confederacy had not noticed Sherman's march to the sea. The list (of assets that were seized) includes a 2010 Mercedes 400S sedan, three pieces of real estate, and 29 bank accounts held by the defendants and companies that they control. The total value of all this swag is noted as $20.7 million, but there are no statements about the size of each individual asset. Mysteries Within the Indictment. This leads to one of the multitudinous mysteries within the indictment. If Kosuri and his wife were securing funding from 800 illegal aliens (posing as H-1B workers) and if they had secured over $20 million in loot, why would they bother defrauding SBA of such small sums? In one case they applied for an SBA benefit, were rejected, applied again, were rejected again, and then apparently got what they wanted on the third attempt (once again, the indictment does not say so, but that sequence is implied.) Similarly, they seemed to have only one, six-year-old vehicle worth seizing, the Mercedes, and Loudoun County (Va.) property appraisals show their home as being worth a bit over $800,000, fairly typical of the Ashburn area where they lived. Neither of these are signs of real affluence. These indicators suggest one of two things: 1) they were engaged in a manic effort to squeeze as much money as possible out of the system, without spending too much of it; or 2) they were not managing their illicit house of cards very competently. I suspect some of both, but the indictment sheds no light on either.