New York-based immigration attorney Kofi Amankwaa and his son, Kofi Amankwaa, Jr., have been charged with carrying out a large-scale immigration fraud scheme on Caribbean and other migrants.
They are accused of exploiting the Violence Against Women Act—a law that allows non-citizen victims of domestic abuse a path to lawful permanent residence status—for their own financial gain by falsely claiming that their clients were victims of domestic abuse.
The fraud is said to have run from September 2016 through November 2023.
The father and son, both of South River, New Jersey, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit immigration fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, and one count of immigration fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
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