United States v. Archer

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOHNSON, Senior District Judge:

Defendant Thomas Archer (“Archer”), an attorney, was charged in a four count superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit visa fraud (Count One) and with three counts of visa fraud (Counts Two, Four and Five). 1 On March 15, 2010, the case proceeded to trial and on March 24, 2010, he was convicted of all counts charged. (His co-defendant Rukhsana Rafique (“Rafique”) was convicted of three of the four counts.)

After carefully reviewing the evidence adduced at trial, this Court denied Archer’s motion for acquittal and for a new trial…