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Yulia Grinberg, Ilona Dzhamgarova, Yuri Mosha: how the cases of Russian-speaking lawyers and consultants accused of immigration fraud are developing

'09.12.2022'

Lyudmila Balabay

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In New York, a trial has begun in the case of Russian-speaking immigration lawyers and consultants who allegedly taught asylum seekers to lie in order to get their cases approved. One of the defendants in this case, Yuri Mosha, at the end of October admitted his guilt. This week, the first court session was held in the cases of other defendants - lawyer Yulia Grinberg and the head of the Russian America company Uladzimir Dansky. They are accused of conspiracy and immigration fraud. Law360.

Prosecutor's version

Assistant Attorney David Felton told jurors that Greenberg and Dansky trained asylum seekers to make up "stories of persecution and fear" and lie in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services interviews. According to the prosecutor, all this was recorded by two FBI informants who visited "Russian America" ​​under the guise of clients.

Felton stated that in one of the cases, the defendants created a fake blog for a client. He was advised to say that he was under political persecution because of the criticism of the authorities of his home country in this blog.

In another case, an FBI informant posing as a client allegedly managed to record Greenberg instructing him to lie about being gay. In particular, the lawyer advised him to "pluck his eyebrows and get a manicure" before his asylum interview in order to conform to gay stereotypes.

“The defendants were simply making fun of the US asylum system,” the prosecutor said.

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The version of the lawyer Yulia Grinberg

Both informants are expected to appear in court later. Meanwhile, attorneys for Grinberg and Dansky, in their opening statements, urged jurors to treat the testimony of informants with distrust.

James Branden, Greenberg's lawyer, pointed out that both witnesses were convicted of crimes and are cooperating with the government in exchange for their own benefits: one to get a lighter sentence and the other to maintain their US immigration status.

“You have to be very picky about their testimony,” Branden advised the jury.

Branden, among other things, tried to challenge the collusion between Grinberg and Dansky. According to him, the lawyer intervened in the case only at the very end, while the asylum application was allegedly prepared on the basis of false data exclusively in Russian America. According to Branden, Greenberg intends to testify in her own defense.

Greenberg and Dansky were arrested in February 2021, together with Yuri Mosha, who led the Manhattan office of Russian America, and Alexey Kmit, an employee of the company. Mosha recognized his guilt in October (the next trial in his case is scheduled for March), and Kmit reached an agreement last month to postpone the case.

The case of Ilona Dzhamgarova

In a separate indictment, also published in February 2021, the Manhattan prosecutor's office filed immigration fraud charges against two lawyers from the Brooklyn law office Ilona Dzhamgarova & Associates PC.

It features a married couple - immigration lawyers Ilona Dzhamgarova and Artur Arkadyan. They are due to appear in court in May 2023. The third defendant in their case, blogger Igor Reznik, pleaded guilty in August to assisting in the preparation of fraudulent asylum documents.

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