ALBANY – Several companies in the New York City area charged with providing bogus legal assistance to thousands of immigrants have agreed to cease operations and to pay up to $1.2 million in restitution under an agreement announced yesterday by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.
Few, if any, of the employees of the American Immigrants Federation and five related firms were actually attorneys authorized to provide the citizenship and visa services they offered to 20,000 customers, according to Mr. Cuomo.
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