A Bronx-based former immigration attorney with Ghanaian descent, Kofi Amankwaa, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for immigration fraud in connection with his supervision of a multi-year scheme to file fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA"). Kofi Amankwaa, 70, pled guilty on September 17 2024 before U.S.
District Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who imposed the sentence on Wednesday, February 26.
According to filings and public court proceedings, Amankwaa together with a group of workers filed thousands of fraudulent immigration applications (Form I-360 VAWA Petitions) for clients from September 2016 to November 2023, falsely stating that the clients were abused by their U.S.
citizen children.
