A Department of Homeland Security supervisor was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday for falsifying documents for more than 200 illegal immigrants in a scheme that made more than $8.1 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria.
Robert T. Schofield, 57, was arrested in June at his U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Fairfax and indicted on conspiracy charges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. A Chinese citizen, Qiming Ye, of Washington, also was arrested in June for allegedly brokering the deals. Ye has not been indicted.
Schofield, a federal immigration employee for 30 years, used the money to buy property in Northern Virginia and have sex with many women in Asia, including one trip last winter in which he allegedly had sex with 17 females, authorities say.
Department of Justice files dating back 10 years revealed that there had been numerous allegations of bribery involving Schofield and Asian immigration applications, according to an agent’s affidavit.
Schofield was once demoted in the 1990s after he was warned to stop an inappropriate relationship with a woman who was under a criminal investigation, according to the affidavit. Instead, Schofield fled to East Asia, where he spent $36,000 in unauthorized purchases on his government-issued credit cards.
It’s unclear why Schofield was allowed to stay on the job and DHS officials have said they would not comment on his employment history.
