Nearly a dozen California residents were busted for arranging hundreds of “sham marriages” between Americans and immigrants who paid to get green cards out of the bogus nuptials, the feds said Thursday.Marcialito “Mars” Biol Benitez, 48, was the alleged ringleader of the Los Angeles “agency” that paired US citizens with foreign national clients and staged weddings filled with prop decorations and online officiants, according to the Department of JusticeBenitez and his ten cohorts would then submit fake wedding pictures with false documents and petitions to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and coach the newlyweds through interviews with immigration officials, prosecutors alleged.
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