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Immigration

Jun. 26, 2009

Three Immigration Lawyers Convicted of Asylum Fraud

A federal jury Thursday convicted three immigration lawyers and two of their translators of a conspiracy to file false asylum claims after a lengthy federal trial in Sacramento.

By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal jury Thursday convicted three immigration lawyers and two of their translators of a conspiracy to file false asylum claims after a lengthy federal trial in Sacramento.

Attorneys Jagprit Singh Sekhon, 39, Jagdip Singh Sekhon, 42, and Manjit Kaur Rai, 33 of Sekhon & Sekhon, and two translators were convicted of numerous charges of false asylum claims, the results of a years-long investigation by ...

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