ICE counselor accused of stealing identities

SEATTLE — The chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle has been charged with stealing immigrants’ identities.

Raphael A. Sanchez, who resigned from the agency effective Monday, faces one count of aggravated identity theft and another of wire fraud in a charging document filed Monday in U.S. District Court.

Prosecutors with the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section allege that Sanchez stole the identities of seven people “in various stages of immigration proceedings” to defraud credit card companies. explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels. Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said he was not reimbursed.

He declined to answer followup questions, including whether Trump had been aware that he made the payment, why he made the payment or whether he had made similar payments to others.

Cohen has previously said that Trump denied an affair with Clifford. after one person was slain in a shooting on St. Charles Avenue as a Mardi Gras parade passed by. Two others were wounded in a separate shooting reported one block off St. Charles, again while a parade rolled by.

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