U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the conviction of a disbarred Queens immigration attorney for filing more than 100 asylum applications containing false and recycled information.
The ruling, from a judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court, acknowledged the “uncertainty” surrounding precisely what type of conduct the federal aggravated identity theft statute was meant to cover, but otherwise declined to weigh in on its scope, finding more than enough evidence to support the conviction.
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