A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing of immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases.
The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
He allegedly fast-tracked citizenship for Somoye before he approved residency applications for Somoye’s wife and child.
Ganiyu allegedly rerouted applications from USCIS field offices in Minneapolis, Charlotte and Houston, bypassing local supervisors so he could approve them himself.
Most of the citizenship applications they handled involved applicants from African countries, according to prosecutors.
**This will be the criminal “migrants” next step. They can’t get in by claiming asylum or sneaking across the border so they’ll bribe lower level immigration officials to grease the wheels. The feds should start noting which immigration officials drive to work in $200,000 cars.**
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A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing of immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases.
The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
He allegedly fast-tracked citizenship for Somoye before he approved residency applications for Somoye’s wife and child.
Ganiyu allegedly rerouted applications from USCIS field offices in Minneapolis, Charlotte and Houston, bypassing local supervisors so he could approve them himself.
Most of the citizenship applications they handled involved applicants from African countries, according to prosecutors.
**This will be the criminal “migrants” next step. They can’t get in by claiming asylum or sneaking across the border so they’ll bribe lower level immigration officials to grease the wheels. The feds should start noting which immigration officials drive to work in $200,000 cars.**