Fraud..

 

Bronx-based former immigration attorney, Kofi Amankwaa, pled guilty to immigration fraud in federal court on Sept. 17 in connection with his supervision of a multi-year scheme to file fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”), federal prosecutors said. As reported in January, Attorney General Letitia James sued Amankwaa and other lawyers for scamming immigrants.

In the context of the announcement, Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Amankwaa pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, adding, “For years, Kofi Amankwaa oversaw a massive immigration fraud scheme, filing thousands of immigration documents falsely alleging that his clients were victims of abuse by their children or other family members.”