She owes immigrant victims $1 million, but she’s working in Boston for free
Glamorous and charismatic, Stella Figueredo lured thousands of immigrants to her offices with the promise of green cards and US citizenship, investigators said, and then charged them exorbitant fees for services she did not provide. When New York’s top prosecutor shuttered her organization in 2010, he ordered her to pay victims $1.2 million and to never perform immigration work in that state again.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now the governor, warned that the crackdown on Figueredo’s nonprofit should send a message that “individuals who try to take advantage of immigrants will not get away with it in New York State.”
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