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A FORMER immigration attorney has been sentenced to prison for 70 months for 'large-scale' immigration fraud on Caribbean and other immigrants.

Matthew Podolsky, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that 70-yearold Kofi Amankwaa was sentenced for immigration fraud in connection with his supervision of a multi-year scheme to file fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

Podolsky said Amankwaa pleaded guilty before US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who imposed the sentence.