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Immigration Case Rezkik Pleads & Wants
Allocuation Sealed But Press Present
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 24 – Igor Reznik, Ilona
Dzhamgarova and Arthur Arcadian were charged
with immigration fraud, using
a Brooklyn law firm to
fraudulently seek asylum for
clients primarily from Russia
and the
CIS.
On September 14, 2021 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
A complaint
was made that the asylum
applications are difficult to
compile, as USCIS keeps them
only in hard copy, spread out
all over the country.
Judge Vyskocil
said she would be seeking a
trial date in the second
quarter of 2022.
Jump cut to
August 24, 2022 when Igor
Reznik appeared before Judge
Vyskocil, to change his plea
to guilty to Count 1.
First, the
Russian interpreter spoke up
to say it turned out he wasn't
needed. His voucher had been
for the absent co-defendant
Mr. Arcadian.
Inner
City Press was
there are live
tweeted, here:
OK
- now at
asylum fraud
change of plea
of Igor
Reznik. The
plea agreement
is being
amended on the
fly, now
signed in
triplicate by
Reznik
His
firm "advised
clients to
seek asylum by
falsely
claiming to be
members of the
Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual,
Transgender
& Queer
community
sufferinh
persecution in
their native
countries,
when they
fully
understood
these clients
were not
members of
that community
...REZNIK also
coached
clients to lie
in asylum
interviews
conducted by
USCIS asylum
officers. The
Firm employed
writers &
bloggers,
including IGOR
REZNIK, who
knowingly
concocted and
drafted
clients’
fraudulent
asylum
affidavits."
He
has his head
in his hands
The
plea is on, to
Count 1.
Reznik is a
naturalized US
citizen.
Judge: There
may be
immigration
consequences.
Plea
deal is for 10
to 16 months.
AUSA says
there are no
victims.
Reznik's
guilty plea is
accepted.
Sentencing set
for January 4,
2023 at 11
am.
Then
Reznik's
lawyer asked
if the
transcript
could be
sealed, so
that the
co-defendants
would not know
what Reznik
had pled to.
The AUSA has
asked if, when
his Office
orders the
transcript, he
should provide
it only to
Chambers, or
put it in the
docket. Absent
a motion, it
is going into
the docket (as
it should),
albeit in a
delay. But
Inner City
Press was
there.
Resnik
allocuted to
emailing and
planning with
both
co-defendants
about the fake
LGBTQ asylum
affidavits.
The AUSA
mentioned a
cooperating
witness. Inner
City Press
will have more
on this case.
The case is US v.
Dzhamgarova, et al., 21-cr-58
(Vyskocil)
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