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From Breitbart: A California woman has been convicted of aiding hundreds of illegal migrants in their efforts to obtain green cards by creating fraudulent medical records without authorization from a doctor, prosecutors said.
Chantelle Lavergne Woods of San Luis Obispo County pleaded guilty Monday to one count of presentation of false immigration document or application and one count of possession with intent to distribute phendimetrazine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California announced.
The 54-year-old woman had been operating a clinic called “Medical Weight Loss and Immigration Services” that served as a front for her scheme beginning in February 2021, when prosecutors said she “knowingly misused the identities of three physicians to create hundreds of fraudulent documents pertaining to medical examinations of individuals seeking to register for a lawful permanent resident (LPR) card – commonly known as a ‘green card’ – or otherwise adjust their immigration status.”
One of the doctors Woods used to create the fake medical exam documents was “deceased,” the press release stated.
Woods reportedly admitted that she had filed falsified forms for 328 migrants for a fee of $450 each.
The Justice Department explained in a press release:
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires the submission of a medical examination and vaccination record that assess several physical and mental health factors to determine if an applicant is inadmissible to the United States on health-related grounds.
Federal law requires licensed physicians to perform these examinations and then sign a form attesting, in part, that the physician performed the medical examination and truly and accurately completed the form based on the examination and the information provided by the applicant. Woods completed at least 328 such forms on which she falsely included the signature of medical doctors, thereby representing that the individual had been medically examined by a doctor, when in fact they had not.
At times, there were no physicians present at the clinic, Woods acted without physician authorization, and the clinic did not provide legitimate medical services.
Central Coast woman pleads guilty to misusing doctors’ credentials to create bogus medical documents for immigration applicants https://t.co/FK5de7m8yT
— US Attorney L.A. (@USAO_LosAngeles) May 5, 2025
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