Ex-Judge Gets 2 Years for 'Predatory' Immigration Fraud Scheme
A onetime New York State Supreme Court justice was sentenced last week to two years in prison on visa fraud charges.
Salvador Collazo was convicted in April of charges related to running an “immigration fraud mill” from which he filed bogus green card applications from 2000 to 2008 from his Bronx office, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release (PDF) at the time. At sentencing, Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin called the scheme “predatory.” She also gave Collazo’s paralegal 6½ years in prison.
Collazo was removed from the bench in 1998 for passing a lewd note about a female law intern and later denying to a screening committee that he did so, the New York Law Journal reported in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
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