Americans paid to help overseas workers land U.S. jobs faced prison, steep forfeitures

Six federal prosecutions reveal how much Americans received for helping overseas IT workers obtain fraudulent U.S. jobs, what they did for the money and how their sentences ranged from probation to 8½ years in prison.
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