Sharma recruited foreign workers with purported IT expertise who sought work in the United States. When submitting the potential staffers’ H-1B visa paperwork to U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services, Sharma falsely represented that the foreign workers had full-time positions awaiting them at a national bank, a prerequisite to securing their visas. In fact, Sharma had never secured work for the applicants and submitted phony letters to USCIS on the bank’s letterhead with forged signatures of bank executives. The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

district court file: https://www.sagar.com/images/neeraj-sharma-h1b-visa-naturalization-fraud-complaint.pdf

I knew this guy personally. Shit!

I bet this was to increase the chance at the lottery.

Companies won't give you a job without H1B but you can't get an H1B without a job offer.

Why didn't he just submit it as Magnavision employess instead of Bank-1? Makes no sense.

He's going to lose his citizenship over this as well since this was done before he became a citizen.

No big deal, worst case scenario, Sharma can always move to sanctuary city in California and file asylum. Better yet, he could simply make the judges happy like Smollett did and get away with all the charges. God save the USofA.