Broker, clients plead guilty in immigration scheme with corrupt DHS agent

Published August 21, 2011 4:00am ET



A Fairfax woman has admitted that she recruited illegal immigrants who paid bribes to a corrupt Department of Homeland Security supervisor in exchange for fraudulent immigration documents. Sherry He pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to a charge of procurement of unlawful citizenship.

She admitted that she brought illegal immigrants to Robert Schofield, a former DHS officer in the Citizenship and Immigration Services division who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for accepting bribes to falsify immigration documents that let illegal aliens become U.S. citizens.

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