Ice Officials: Arnaldo Echevarria

ice officials: Attorney Michael Koribanics said Echevarria took full responsibility for his actions in court, according to Metro News. He was reviewing whether to appeal the conviction. Arnaldo Echevarria, of Somerset, was convicted in March of bribery, making false statements and harbouring an undocumented immigrant. Echevarria received 75,000 in bribes from immigrants not in the U.S. legally in exchange for employment authorization documents from 2012 to 2014, prosecutors said, and in one instance he demanded and received sex. He paid his girlfriend and other employees in cash to avoid paperwork, prosecutors said. He also was convicted of concealing his girlfriend's immigration status and employing her in his hair salon while lying to ICE officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.