H-1B Sex Ring Conspirators are Slapped on the Wrist

Date: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:06 PM

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In case you didn't know, the Lakireddy family used H-1B in an
immigration
fraud scheme to import young girls for sex slaves.

To get more background on this scandal you are invited to view my page
at

*** Warning ***
http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/Library/Archives/Lolitas.htm.
*** Warning ***
That page is slightly pornographic so if you want a lower key library of
articles go to the Programmer's Guild
http://www.programmersguild.org/Guild/h1b/library/Reddy/index.htm. My
venture into porno has been a success. It continues to be one of my most
well visited pages. Perhaps I will one day make some real money by
expanding
on this concept!

Jayaprakash Lakireddy is the brother of wealthy Berkeley landlord
Lakireddy
Bali Reddy, who was convicted of importing underage Indian girls for sex
and
labor. The Lakireddy's used H-1B visas to come to the US and claim that
these girls were family.

Annapurna and Jayaprakash Lakireddy, who pleaded guilty to immigration
fraud
in November, were both slapped on the wrist by U.S. District Court Judge
Claudia Wilkins. Jayaprakash Lakireddy is set to begin a 12-month stay
at a
halfway house on June 17, followed by three years of supervised release.
He
also must pay a $30,000 fine. His wife, Annapurna Lakireddy, who pleaded
guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud,
will be
confined to her home for six months under electronic monitoring. She was
fined $2,000.

This travesty of justice is stunning. We have people who defrauded INS
and
were involved in a child sex slave ring and they get sentences that are
not
even as stiff as a drunken driving violation.

I made a special web page to commemorate their light sentence. I
obtained
copies of the LCAs that the Lakireddy's filed to import some of their
H-1Bs.
I put one of them on a web page for the viewing of newsletter readers.
Go to
this page but expect a long download because I haven't optmized it or
linked
it to my site: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/Library/Archives/Reddy.htm

Notice that Vijay Kumar Lakireddy filed the LCA with the Department of
Labor. Active Tech Solutions is one of their front organizations.

Use the Advanced Search www.ZaZona.com/LCA-Data and enter the company
name
"Active Tech Solutions" and you will see many LCAs that Vijay K.
Lakireddy
filed with the Department of Labor. Names of the persons filling out the
LCAs are not put online but you can still see the types of H-1Bs that he
was
applying for.

Enter "Pasand" to get his restaurant (Pasand Madras Cusine) into the
Advanced search and you will see that the restaurant owned by Reddy
filed
LCAs for cooks for $11 an hour. This restaurant was used as a front
organization - and the LCAs are signed by none other than co-conspirator
Venenkateswara Vermireddy! Unfortunately I haven't been able to obtain
paper
copies of these. It would require a more difficult Freedom of
Information
Request.

Here is a record from my raw database. Some of the entried you can't see
online.

Visa_Type: PERM
Case_Number: 09423686
Job_Title: Cook, Specialty, Foreign Food
OCC: 313
Employer_Name: PASAND MADRAS CUISINE
Work_City: SANTA CLARA
Work_State: CA
Num_Aliens: 1
Salary: $11.26
Unit_of_Pay: Hourly
Prevailing_Wage: $11.26
Unit_of_Pay_Prev: Hourly
Start_Date: 12/9/1999
Final_Action: Certified
Contact_Name_Last: VEMIREDDY
Contact_Name_First: VENKA

http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8533

Lakireddy Couple's Sentences Handed Down
Activists Disappointed by Lack of Punishment

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By NATE TABAK
Daily Cal Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 30, 2002

OAKLAND-Two members of the Reddy family, linked to an illegal sex and
labor
ring, avoided prison sentences in Federal Court yesterday.

Annapurna and Jayaprakash Lakireddy, who pleaded guilty to immigration
fraud
in November, were both handed down sentences of less than a year by U.S.
District Court Judge Claudia Wilkins.

Jayaprakash Lakireddy is the brother of wealthy Berkeley landlord
Lakireddy
Bali Reddy, who was convicted of importing underage Indian girls for sex
and
labor.

Jayaprakash Lakireddy is set to begin a 12-month stay at a halfway house
on
June 17, followed by three years of supervised release. He also must pay
a
$30,000 fine.

His wife, Annapurna Lakireddy, who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of
conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, will be confined to her home for
six
months under electronic monitoring. She was fined $2,000.

Defense Attorney William Osterhoudt was pushing for a lighter sentence
for
Jayaprakash Lakireddy. He said his client's guilt only extended to
immigration fraud-not his brother's sex and labor conspiracy.

Calling Jayaprakash Lakireddy's immigration fraud conviction "the only
blemish on his life" Osterhoudt recommended that his client spend 10
months
split between a halfway house and home-confinement.

In his plea bargain, Jayaprakash Lakireddy admitted to employing young
Indian girls who had fraudulent visas. But he told The Daily Californian
in
July that he "didn't do shit."

Osterhoudt also lauded his client's contributions to the community,
showing
the court a photograph of a temple in India that he refurbished.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Corrigan argued for a 14-month
prison
sentence, saying Jayaprakash Lakireddy was well-aware of his brother's
dubious activities. Corrigan noted that, at one point, the two worked
together on a daily basis.

"(Annapurna and Jayaprakash) were aware of the victimization," Corrigan
said.

Judge Wilkins said she found it difficult to believe Jayaprakash
Lakireddy
did not know about his brother's labor practices.

For local activists, who have followed all the Reddy trials from the
onset,
the outcome was a disappointment.

"I think it's a travesty of justice," said Marcia Poole, who tipped off
police to the sex ring in November 1999. She called the sentence "a
little
wrap on the knuckles."

Poole said the punishment was especially ironic considering the federal
government's crackdown on immigration violations.

Annapurna Lakireddy's sentence, Poole said, was especially appalling.
Judge
Wilkins said Annapurna Lakireddy would be able to do things such as
leave
her home to attend her children's sports games, with prior consent.

The Lakireddy couple was originally scheduled to be sentenced in
January,
but the date was moved back twice.

Two of Reddy's sons also appeared in court yesterday in preparation for
their upcoming trial.

Vijay Kumar Lakireddy and Prasad Lakireddy face a variety of charges
that
include bringing illegal immigrants to the United States for "immoral
purposes." Attorneys for the pair have been trying to drop the charges,
claiming they are too vague.

The charges allege the two imported underage Indian girls for sex. But
attorneys for the sons argued that because the girls would have been of
consenting age when they allegedly had sex with the Reddy sons, the sex
would not qualify as immoral, and the charges would not apply.

The two brothers are scheduled to go to trial early next year.

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