Ex-Official Convicted of Immigration Fraud
A former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general working as an immigration lawyer was convicted Tuesday of submitting several hundred fraudulent immigrant applications for political asylum.
Alexander Hamer, 46, of Berwyn, Pa., who also had served as a workers compensation judge in the state, was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury of conspiracy, fraud and making false statements. He faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $750,000 fine.
Prosecutors alleged that between August 1994 and February 1995, Hamer conspired with the owner of a Manhattan immigration agency to submit hundreds of fraudulent applications for asylum on behalf of illegal immigrant clients seeking employment authorization from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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