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November 27, 2006

Diplomatic Visa Scam Unravels in D.C.

"For diplomats from the embassies of Jordan, Brunei, and Benin, Hendarmin Mansoer was the chauffeur who shuttled them through Washington, D.C.’s teeming traffic. To U.S. Embassy officials overseas, however, Mansoer had assumed the identities of some of those same diplomats in a visa-fraud scheme that exploited weaknesses in U.S. border security," says the Legal Times. "When investigators searched Mansoer’s home in Silver Spring, Md., they recovered stolen embassy letterhead stationery, stamps containing official embassy seals, embassy employment records, and even passports belonging to ambassadors and other embassy personnel from Benin, Brunei, and Jordan. Some of the seized documents included Mansoer’s scrawled handwriting from his practice at forging diplomats’ signatures."

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Document theivery? Forgery? Criminal use of anothers identity? These are virtues that merit reward-or so I was lead to believe by the current administration. Why are they picking on this poor man? Dont they know he's a 'minority'?

Posted by: Angus MacLeod on November 27, 2006 05:41 PM

I'M TELLING YOU, FINGERPRINT MATCHING IS THE ONLY RELIABLE WAY FOR CITIZEN ID

We have computers that can forge just about anything now. The illegals are getting good at it too.

Federal employees won't be able to go to work in 2008, without a fingerprint scan. Their ID card already uses fingerprint scan for renewals.

The forgers can't forge fingerprints.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on November 27, 2006 06:37 PM

Don't forget that the Democrats have been doing the sinful amnesty dance far longer than the current administration has been in power.

Posted by: jaded on November 27, 2006 10:30 PM