United States v. Constantine Kallas

AMENDED MEMORANDUM **

A jury convicted Defendant-Appellant Constantine Kallas, a former attorney in the Office of the Chief Counsel within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), of 36 counts of conspiracy, bribery, obstruction, immigration fraud, false statements, aggravated identity theft, workers’ compensation fraud, and tax evasion. The convictions arose from a scheme in which Kallas and his wife and co-defendant, Maria Kallas, extracted payments from illegal aliens in exchange for assistance in obtaining immigration benefits for the aliens. The district court sentenced Kallas to…