US EditionImmigration officer charged with taking bribes to help immigrants obtain legal status
- Amara Dukuly, a 43-year-old immigration officer residing in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, was taken into custody on Thursday and formally accused in federal court in Philadelphia of accepting bribes as a public official.
- Dukuly allegedly took bribes over nearly a decade in exchange for helping immigrants adjust their legal status, despite lacking authority or access to fulfill such promises.
- Investigators recorded Dukuly soliciting $6,000 in an April 4 meeting at an Eddystone Walmart parking lot, where he claimed he would pay others to remove a "terrorist" label blocking citizenship.
- Dukuly told a source, "They're going to make it clean, then you'll proceed with the standard procedure," while TransUnion records reveal he owes $32,277 in debt.
- The case is under ongoing investigation by Homeland Security, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, which urges victims or witnesses to call 866-347-2423 and mention HSI Philadelphia.
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Immigration officer charged with accepting bribes from migrants
An immigration officer from Pennsylvania has been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for adjusting immigrants’ legal status over a nearly decadelong period. Amara Dukuly, 43, of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with bribery of a public official, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced Thursday. Dukuly had allegedly used his status as a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office…
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A federal immigration employee from Delaware County solicited bribes and made false promises to immigrants, feds say
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Amara Dukuly most recently accepted $6,000 in cash from a confidential informant posing as a Tajikistani immigrant.
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