Gregory Chandler -- Immigration Fraud Litigation

A case appealed to the Eleventh Circuit involving immigration fraud is United States v.

Ndiaye, 434 F. 3d 1270 (11th Cir. 2006). In a prosecution for immigration offenses and

Social Security fraud, the Court held it was only harmless error to allow cross-examination

of a defendant's character witnesses regarding a letter that the defendant sent to a female neighbor requesting a "get-together" while their respective spouses were at work. Some of

the circumstances surrounding the letter were unknown and, while the letter did perhaps

suggest that the defendant was not being entirely candid with his wife, it did not directly

relate to his truthfulness and honesty.

GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law