"Howard Seidler, 70, was sentenced to serve two to four years in a state penitentiary Wednesday after admitting that he posed as a lawyer and received payments from immigrants in exchange for empty promises to help them stay in the U.S. The conviction of the Brooklyn marks a significant victory in New York State’s efforts to combat rampant exploitation of undocumented people seeking to normalized their immigration status. Seidler is the first immigration fraudster to be convicted of immigrant-services fraud under the 2014 Immigrant Assistance Service Enforcement Act, according to the NY Daily News ."

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