United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), Pete Gizas, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph B. Edlow, and Westchester County District Attorney, Susan Cacace, announced today the unsealing of a two-count Indictment charging AMY CHENG, a/k/a “Amy Zhou,” XIAO MEI CHAN, a/k/a “Carmen,” CHRISTINE LU, a/k/a “Lily,” JING YAN YE, a/k/a “Serene,” XIAO YAN CHEN, a/k/a “Anna,” GANG ZHENG, a/k/a “Michael,” a/k/a “Mike,” ANTHONY CHENG, MICHELLE DUENAS, ANGELA DUENAS, SIGRID CETINO, and ERIKA JOHNSON, with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice