Hair Salon: Arnaldo Echevarria and Immigration Status

hair salon: Attorney Michael Koribanics said an appeal is likely, according to Metro News. 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. Arnaldo Echevarria, of Somerset, New Jersey, was found guilty Thursday of bribery, making false statements and harbouring a person living in the U.S. illegally. He also was convicted of concealing his girlfriend's immigration status and employing her in his hair salon while lying to ICE officials. He was given permission by ICE in December 2012 to open a hair salon in West Orange after he certified that the salon wouldn't conflict with his job and that he wouldn't employ people who were in the country without legal permission. Echevarria paid his girlfriend and other employees in cash to avoid paperwork, prosecutors said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.