How an LA marriage fraud scheme helped over 300 people obtain green cards
It was a midsummer day in 2021 when Engilbert Ulan met with a newlywed couple in Los Angeles to help them prepare for questions they expected to face from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The husband, a 53-year-old foreign national, had begun the process of applying for a green card and needed to pass an interview scheduled for a few days later. He and his wife, a U.S. citizen, would have to prove their marriage was legitimate.
Ulan moved them through the list of 211 possible questions that his boss, Marcialito "Mars" Biol Benitez, had provided.
"What is the color of your spouse's toothbrush?" Ulan asked. "Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?"
But according to federal prosecutors, Ulan knew the couple's marriage was
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