Missouri: State Representative Guilty of Immigration Fraud

Helped get temporary work visas for his clients in the trucking business

By Bob Priddy

A State Representative from Cape Girardeau has pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges.

The federal prosecutor says Representative Nathan Cooper (R-Cape Girardeau), a lawyer specializing in immigration law, helped get temporary work visas for his clients in the trucking business.

The prosecutor says he was paid at least $50,000 in legal fees from his trucking clients. He admitted creating fake companies that he used to get temporary work visas; writing bogus letters about the immigration status of his clients’ workers, and of buying visas that were illegally transferred to his client’s workers.http://www.missourinet.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=4B4C5A0C-9CCD-077A-2F1EA44901021AE0

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2007-08-09