The Region - News from May 2, 1986

Three former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service employees and one who still works for the federal agency were charged with accepting payoffs to unlawfully help aliens obtain citizenship. Two federal indictments named Evelyn Clark and Marietta Jones in eight counts and Betty Alvarez and Georgia Terrell in seven counts. Assistant U.S. Atty. Laurie L. Levenson said that only Terrell, a clerk, still works for the INS. Alvarez resigned Tuesday from her job as a naturalization examiner. The government accuses Jones, an INS clerk in 1980, of accepting petitions for naturalization and falsely representing that the aliens named in them were entitled to citizenship. For an undisclosed fee, the indictment said, Jones arranged to have Clark, a naturalization examiner, handle interviews of the illegal applicants and then Clark helped the aliens pass naturalization examinations. A similar scheme in 1982 is alleged in the indictment naming Terrell and Alvarez.