how evil can this agency gethttps://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/6242...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180628
Raphael A. Sanchez, who was chief counsel at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Seattle when he opened credit cards and took out loans using the personal information of vulnerable immigrants, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
He took a plea deal with the Justice Department, which was approved by a judge on Thursday. He has also been ordered to pay more than $190,000 in restitution.
Sanchez — whose responsibilities included overseeing immigration removal cases in several states — stole and exploited the identities of people who prosecutors say were "particularly vulnerable given their status as deported or otherwise excludable."
He also misreported his earnings in his IRS filings. And, the Justice Department said, Sanchez "claimed three aliens as relative dependents on his tax returns for 2014 through 2016."
Sanchez, 44, pleaded guilty in February to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. As part of his plea, he also signed a statement of fact acknowledging his actions.
That plea came just days after Sanchez resigned in the face of the charges against him.
KUOW has reported. The member station says people who worked with Sanchez were shocked by his behavior.
The scheme went on for four years, from 2013 to 2017, prosecutors say. When his career came to a shocking halt, Sanchez was making $162,000 at his ICE job; his total net worth was estimated at more than $700,000, the government said.
Sanchez opened bank accounts, utility service accounts and email accounts under immigrants' names — filling applications with the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other data that he took from ICE computers and files, according to the government.
He also used his work computer to create counterfeit documents, such as Washington state drivers' licenses.
"Sanchez affixed his own photograph onto the forged identification documents using the information of male Victim Aliens," the Justice Department said in a court filingearlier this month, in which it asked a judge to impose the four-year prison term. "To forge female Victim Aliens' identifications, Sanchez was even more brazen: he used the photograph of a murdered woman published in press accounts and the names of female Victim Aliens."
what a piece of shyt
What the fukk?!!? your a federal lawyer, wtf is you doing???