Haitians in Louisiana

Emmanuel Priva, a Haitian National living in Louisiana was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on December 12, 2019, for running a visa fraud scheme involving more than 100 fraudulent U.S. visitors visa applications.

Priva will lose his house, his car, and all the money he had saved in ten bank accounts by order of U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier who found him guilty.

Read this from https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/haitian-national-sentenced-running-visa-fraud-scheme-involving-more-100-fraudulent-visa

According to court documents, from 2013 to 2018, Priva attempted to fraudulently obtain visas for more than 100 aliens, more than 40 of whom succeeded in obtaining visas to travel to the United States.

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Haiti Diaspora News -- Haitian born professor Reynold Verret has just been installed as the sixth President of Xavier University of Louisiana...

Professor Reynold Verret was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti in October 1958.

Dr. Reynold Verret emigrated to Brooklyn as a child and attended parochial schools in New York before earning an undergraduate degree cum laude in biochemistry from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Read more from a PR Newswire press release...

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