"LAFAYETTE, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a former Lafayette stockbroker and financial consultant was sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating a scheme to take money from the families of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees on the false promise that he would provide the ICE detainees assistance in their immigration proceedings.
Donald Domingue, 59, of Lafayette, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald Walter on one count of wire fraud. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $10,965 restitution and a $10,000 fine. According to the March 27, 2017 guilty plea, Domingue, who was a financial consultant and stockbroker in Lafayette, owned and operated a company headquartered in Lafayette that claimed to assist individuals being held in ICE detention centers. Through this company, American Immigration Consulting LLC, Domingue operated a scheme to defraud ICE detainees. He would make mass mailings to ICE detention centers around the country advertising his services in representing illegal aliens and assisting them with their immigration problems. Those detainees would then contact family members who would pay Domingue in exchange for promises that Domingue would represent the ICE detainees at deportation hearings, assist them in obtaining work permits, assist them in “bonding out” of detention facilities, and otherwise provide services in immigration-related matters. However, after receiving payments, Domingue would cease communication with the ICE detainees and their family members and fail to render the promised immigration services. The ICE detainees would then generally be deported. The scheme to defraud stared in April of 2014 and ended October 2014."
What was Mr. Domingue thinking, that he can steal from someone who is down already? Not the brightest light bulb. In any event, he is lucky the feds only gave him 18 months time, which is like microwave time.
To see what he can expect in federal prison, go here...https://www.amazon.com/Prison-Diaries-Life-MDC-Brooklyn-ebook/dp/B06XL18YS5
What was Mr. Domingue thinking, that he can steal from someone who is down already? Not the brightest light bulb. In any event, he is lucky the feds only gave him 18 months time, which is like microwave time.
To see what he can expect in federal prison, go here...https://www.amazon.com/Prison-Diaries-Life-MDC-Brooklyn-ebook/dp/B06XL18YS5
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