National Guard soldier who added Mongolian migrant as second wife pleads guilty to immigration fraud
National Guard member who entered a bigamous marriage with an illegal Mongolian immigrant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fraud scheme aimed at keeping her in the U.S. Collin Welch, 40, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty to unlawfully inducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. and to stealing around $54,000 in government money, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
- ▪National Guard member who entered a bigamous marriage with an illegal Mongolian immigrant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fraud scheme aimed at keeping her in the U.S.
- ▪Collin Welch, 40, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty to unlawfully inducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. and to stealing around $54,000 in government money, the U.S.
- ▪Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
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A D.C. National Guard member who entered a bigamous marriage with an illegal Mongolian immigrant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fraud scheme aimed at keeping her in the U.S. Maj. Collin Welch, 40, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty to unlawfully inducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. and to stealing around $54,000 in government money, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said. In 2019, during a posting at the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, Welch started a relationship with the woman, unnamed by federal prosecutors. He fabricated documents to convince her he had gotten a divorce, married her in Mongolia in 2022 despite still being married, and brought her and her daughter to the U.S.
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