New York Woman Married Ten Times To Enable Immigrants To Stay In US

Liana Barrientos appears in court in April.

Photo: Reuters
And they were all men. How typical.

[From article]

A woman busted and charged ​as a serial bigamist ​for marrying 10 times without getting a single divorce ​was a no-show in court Monday, and a Bronx judge issued a warrant for her arrest.
Last month, Liana Barrientos pleaded not guilty to felony fraud charges in connection with a green card scam that illegally paired her with foreign men looking for a way into the country.
Prosecutors said the serial bride married 10 green card-seeking grooms over the course of 10 years from places including Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Mali, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Georgia.
“The motive was definitely not love,” one source said.
Her most recent nuptials came on March 4, 2010.

[. . .]

Barrientos’ eighth husband, Rashid Rajput, was deported to Pakistan for making threatening statements against the United States in 2006, prosecutors said.
She wore a wedding and engagement ring on her left hand at her arraignment last month.
Barrientos faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/18/judge-issues-arrest-warrant-after-serial-bride-a-no-show-at-court/

‘Serial bride’ wanted after no-show at court
By Emily Saul and Leonard Greene
New York Post
May 18, 2015 | 1:25pm

Apple CEO Sued By Wife For Hiding Assets During Divorce

John Sculley

Photo: Getty Images
[From article]
The man who famously fired Steve Jobs from Apple, John Sculley, is being sued by his ex-wife of 32 years, Carol Lee Sculley, who claims he “secretly and furtively” hid more than $25 million of his assets when they divorced.


Carol Lee Sculley

Sculley — the former Apple CEO who reportedly now has a net worth of $200 million — settled his divorce with Carol, known as Leezy, in 2011. But she sued him in Palm Beach in 2013 claiming he “lied” to her and the court, “submitted a false financial affidavit . . . and failed to fully and honestly disclose his assets.”
According to the court papers, Sculley had claimed that their total marital assets at the time of their separation in 2010 were $4.8 million. But he allegedly didn’t disclose “substantial private equity investments and investments in privately held companies and ventures around the globe.”

http://pagesix.com/2015/01/25/former-apple-ceo-being-sued-by-ex-for-hiding-millions-in-divorce/?_ga=1.1418994.212440808.1402078759

Former Apple CEO being sued by ex for ‘hiding millions’ in divorce
By Emily Smith
New York Post
January 25, 2015 | 9:44pm

Thrice Married Fiance of OR Governor Married Another Man for Immigration Card

[From article]
Hayes married Abraham B. Abraham in July 1997, when he was 18 and she was 29, she said in an emailed statement Thursday afternoon. They were introduced by mutual acquaintances, met only a handful of times and never lived together, she wrote.
"It was a marriage of convenience," Hayes wrote. "He needed help, and I needed financial support."
Hayes, whose engagement to Gov. John Kitzhaber this summer followed their own 10-year relationship, wrote that she was paid about $5,000, enough to buy a laptop and pay for school expenses. In an emotional press conference at 4 p.m. Thursday, Hayes added that she did not declare the income in her taxes.
[. . .]
I was struggling to put myself through college and was offered money in exchange for marrying a young person who had a chance to get a college degree himself if he were able to remain in the United States."
Hayes has said she was on her own at 16, couch-surfing and struggling to finish high school after her parents fell into a tangle of mental illness and alcoholism. Growing up in rural western Washington, Hayes earned academic and athletic scholarships to Evergreen, where she earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree.
[. . .]
Washington court records show that Hayes filed for divorce from Abraham B. Abraham in a King County court on Oct. 26, 2001. Abraham turned 23 that month; Hayes was 34.
Hayes court records show two previous divorces – from Todd Hayes on March 28, 1989 and from Doug McCarthy on Dec. 17, 1996.
She said Thursday that she has not had any contact with Abraham since their divorce was finalized in February 2002. Not long after the divorce, Abraham went on to graduate magna cum laude with a degree in mathematics from Greensboro College in North Carolina. He currently owns a two-story home in a suburb of Washington, D.C.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/cylvia_hayes_discusses_her_thi_1.html#incart_m-rpt-1

Cylvia Hayes apologizes for 'illegal act,' marrying 18-year-old Ethiopian seeking green card

By Laura Gunderson | lgunderson (at) oregonian.com 
on October 09, 2014 at 4:00 PM, updated October 09, 2014 at 8:14 PM

Former NY Assemblywoman Sentenced To One Year in Jail For Immigration Fraud

Rosa (second from left) in tears after her sentencing

Photo: Stefan Jeremiah
[From article]
A former Washington Heights assemblywoman was sentenced to a year in jail Friday for participating in a sham marriage that allowed her to become a US citizen.
Manhattan federal Judge Denise Cote scolded a sobbing Gabriela Rosa — the first Dominican-born woman ever to be elected to the state Assembly — as she issued the jail sentence, saying she didn’t buy Rosa’s claims of breaking the law to follow “the American dream.”
Cote also said Rosa’s actions are “really a disservice to all the immigrants who actually try to follow the law and gain citizenship.”
[. . .]
Rosa paid $8,000 in 1996 to a US citizen to engage in the fraudulent nuptials while she maintained a romantic relationship with another man. She claimed the sham marriage was out of “desperation” to not be separated from the man she really loved, Victor Estrella.
The feds say Estrella, a convicted drug dealer and a fellow Dominican native, wasn’t a US citizen at that time.
Rosa and Estrella are now married and share a son.
Rosa also pleaded guilty in June to making false statements in a 2009 personal-bankruptcy filing. She failed to include Estrella’s earning and omitted her ownership of a co-op apartment.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/03/former-assemblywoman-sentenced-to-year-in-jail-over-sham-marriage/

Former assemblywoman sentenced to year in jail over sham marriage
By Rich Calder
New York Post
October 3, 2014 | 1:15pm

Murder Suicide, Exposed Fake Marriage For Citizenship

[From article]
The events leading up to the murder and attempted suicide are not entirely clear, but Sheriff Stasi noted that Rogers’ daughter, Kimberly Ann Scott-Rogers, was testifying before a grand jury at the time her father was shot. Stassi told The Times-Picayune that the marriage between Scott-Rogers and Hodgkinson was a ploy to acquire citizenship for the British citizen, with whom Rogers was involved in a sexual relationship.
The Advocate reports that Rogers had fled the United Kingdom in the 1990s after he was accused of sexually abusing children at his dance studio. Hodgkinson and another student at the dance studio followed Rogers to the United States, where the three of them continued to live together for more than 20 years.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/01/la-television-personality-killed-by-son-in-law-and-alleged-lover-in-murder-suicide-attempt/

Baton Rouge TV personality killed by son-in-law and alleged lover in murder-suicide attempt
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, September 1, 2014 12:53 EDT

NY Assemblywoman Pleads Guilty To Immigration, Marriage Fraud

[From article]
Rosa admitted to committing the fraud between 1996 and December 2005, when she became a US citizen.
“I married the person, and it was not a real marriage,” she told Judge Denise Cote.
Her resignation was part of a plea deal and she is banned from ever again seeking office in the United States. The feds said that despite the fraud, they now consider Rosa a US citizen and will not deport her back to her native Dominican Republic.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/27/washington-heights-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-marriage-fraud/

Lawmaker pleads guilty to marriage fraud
By Rich Calder and Carl Campanile
New York Post
June 27, 2014 | 4:45pm

Woman Married 30 Times, FBI Uninterested

[From article]
"Katie Wegg, whose son is also a Finley victim, told The Post she went to the FBI in 2004 and 2006 and both times was dismissed."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/con_gal_military_plunder_4A2Nhdsw1lJehTT7kNJ9cM

'Con' gal's military plunder

17-year 'bigamy scam' preys on troops

By MAUREEN CALLAHAN

Last Updated: 7:06 AM, May 30, 2010

Posted: 3:33 AM, May 30, 2010

Muslim Marriage Fraud

[From article]

"A year after 9/11, homeland-security officials cracked a vast illegal-alien Middle Eastern marriage-fraud ring in "Operation Broken Vows." Authorities were stunned by the scope of the operations, which stretched from Boston to South Carolina to California."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_jihadis_marriage_fraud_scam_iCj3GkDvQHmxATUMP8VTrJ

The Jihadis' marriage-fraud scam

New York Post

Last Updated: 12:33 AM, May 5, 2010

Posted: 11:35 PM, May 4, 2010