Submission + - Someone Finally Goes to Jail for H1-B Fraud
The U.S. requires visa holders to be paid an annual salary. It bars firms from benching or holding workers in unpaid reserve between contracts. The government said that Dibon actively recruited H-1B workers and benched them.
"These two brothers created a highly profitable, and highly illegal business model at the extreme expense of the alien workforce that they recruited," said Katrina W. Berger, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas. "In addition, this same illegal business model operated at an unfair advantage to Dibon's competition since it had a much lower operating overhead."
So now that DHS has thrown a pair of low level offenders in jail they have an excuse to continue to ignore the activities of the corporate giants that abuse the system.
