The alleged fraudsters had one-way tickets to Columbia.
But as they waited to board their plane at Newark Liberty International Airport, federal authorities swooped in and arrested them last Wednesday as part of a crackdown on a sham law firm accused of scamming vulnerable immigrants.
The arrested — siblings Daniela Alejandra Sanchez Ramirez, Jhoan Sebastian Sanchez Ramirez, and Alexandra Patricia Sanchez Ramirez and others — ran a fake immigration law practice in Brooklyn, New York, targeting clients primarily through Facebook and other social media platforms, according to an indictment unsealed last week by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York…