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Aug 11, 2007

Missouri Lawmaker * USA - Pleads guilty to trucker visa fraud

A Missouri state lawmaker pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally obtaining work visas for hundreds of New Zealand immigrants ...

MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Sandi Soendker & Reed Black -Aug. 10, 2007: -- ... so they could drive for trucking companies in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas... First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Reap announced Friday that state Rep. Nathan Cooper, R-Cape Girardeau, now faces up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines... Sentencing has been set for Oct. 19, 2007, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri... According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis, Cooper fraudulently obtained H2B temporary visas for a number of trucking companies that were his clients. Cooper is an immigration attorney as well as state lawmaker... The Southeast Missourian newspaper reported that Pullen Brothers Inc. of Sikeston, MO, was one of the companies that got drivers through Cooper...

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