INS Official Is Accused of Selling Residency Cards
SAN FRANCISCO — A top immigration official stands accused of making as much as $1 million by selling green cards for illegal immigrants.
Justice Department investigators said William Malcolm Tait had bypassed Immigration and Naturalization Service controls since 1983 to help a man obtain 15 residency visas to sell.
That man is cooperating with authorities, the San Francisco Examiner reported Friday.
Tait allegedly made from $300,000 to $1 million in the scheme, the newspaper said.
Tait, 45, a deputy director at the INS office in San Francisco, was arrested Thursday in Dallas, where he was on temporary assignment.
“He’s always been doing a good job--that’s why headquarters was using him for temporary assignment,” said Philip Waters, who heads the INS office in San Francisco.
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