WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A superseding indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Georgia charging five defendants for their roles in a scheme to exploit a nonimmigrant visa worker program to fraudulently obtain worker visas and smuggle aliens into the United States.
According to court documents, Martha Aquino, also known as "Martha Patricia Resendez Sanchez," or "Marta," 61, Evangelina Aquino De Galvan, 49, and Julio Cervantes, 38, all of Alma, Georgia, as well as Marco Cervantes, also known as "Chiquilin," 41, of Rowlett, Georgia, and Juan Felipe Romero-Lopez, 31, an illegal alien from Mexico, conspired to exploit the H-2A visa program by...