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Expert has over 33 years of immigration experience, formerly employed by the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) and by the US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE/HSI). His extensive experience with the INS and ICE includes working in positions as an Immigration Officer, Immigration Inspector, Deportation Officer, Immigration Examiner, Criminal Investigator, Chief Legalization Officer, and Senior Special Agent. Since his retirement from government service, expert has been the principal of a boutique investigative and consulting firm specializing in worksite compliance assessments, compliance reviews, I-9 audits, and training in the identification and detection of counterfeit identity and employment eligibility documents. Expert also provides investigative and expert witness support to law offices in a vast array of complex immigration matters in the defense of businesses or clients charged with immigration violations. He often assists law offices in trial preparation and litigation support as an investigator and expert witness in an array of complex immigration issues. He also provides training in the methods by which employers are able to identify and detect counterfeit identity and work eligibility documents.

Expert was engaged by a lawyer who was under charges for disbarment in the state of Illinois. He investigated a complex immigration issue for which the client (attorney) was subject to disbarment to provide expert testimony on the client's behalf before the Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission ("ARDC") Expert acted as an investigator and expert witness for a plaintiff in a complex and extensive civil case involving the allegation of unfair labor and illegal employment practices used by a competitive bidder for city cleaning contracts. The defendant was accused of hiring and underpaying undocumented workers, which adversely affected the ability of the plaintiff to win government contracts during the bidding process. On behalf of the plaintiff, expert was able to investigate and make sense of the hiring practices employed by the defendant, testifying as an expert on behalf of the plaintiff the defendant was knowingly hiring undocumented workers in an attempt to pay the undocumented employees less and gaining an unfair competitive bidding advantage. A law firm representing a plaintiff involved in a workman’s compensation matter engaged him as an expert in immigration documents. He was responsible to examine and form opinions of employment and identity documents presented by employees at the time Form I-9 was executed to determine whether the documents were genuine or counterfeit. A large law firm was engaged by several large insurance companies to file suit in an attempt to sue for millions of dollars paid to unscrupulous doctors and medical staff in a scheme to defraud the insurance carriers. He was secured as an expert to assist the legal team in determining the immigration bonifides of patients and doctors involved in the investigation.

Expert was engaged by a law firm to assist in the defense of a large company that had been audited and subsequently raided by the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), having been indicted for knowingly and in reckless disregard for the Immigration Law, had hired undocumented workers. Expert was engaged by the law firm to assist the defense team as an investigator, expert witness, and force multiplier.