How IT woRkeD

> kavuru’s four companies maintained a pool of foreign workers for the clients of his consulting companies

> He is accused of submitting fraudulent documents containing details of bogus work projects awaiting the foreign workers

> Once his applications were approved he had a pool of unemployed h-1B beneficiaries available for legitimate work projects

> It gave him a competitive advantage over other staffing companies that followed the sometimes-lengthy visaapplication process

> Kavuru also asked prospective workers to pay thousands of dollars in cash before preparing and submitting their visa applications

> He also made some workers to wait unpaid, sometimes for months, to be placed at an end-client’s workplace