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LEGAL ISSUES
THE U.S. government late last month filed a new, expanded 18-count indictment that now seeks $4.9 million from a New Jersey IT services firm it has accused of fraudulently using H-1B visas.
The government alleges that South Plainfield, NJ.based Vision Systems Group Inc. paid its H-IB workers in multiple states based on low prevailing wage rates in Iowa through the creation of shell businesses in that state.
The indictment charges that the methods used by Vision Systems "have substantially deprived...