El Monte : Ex-INS Officer Is Sentenced
A former officer in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s El Monte office was sentenced Monday to 12 months and one day in federal prison for a scheme to secure false immigration status for Filipino citizenship applicants.
Inocente A. Busante Jr., 55, pleaded guilty on Sept. 23 in Los Angeles federal court to conspiracy, fraud and falsification of immigration documents.
Hired in August, 1982, to work at the INS office on Flair Drive in El Monte, Busante and a Los Angeles couple devised a scheme whereby Filipino applicants paid up to $10,000 for false documents under a 1984 immigration law.
Busante was also placed on three year’s probation, ordered to pay a $30,028 fine and required to complete 200 hours of community service.
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