1/12/2012 1Atty. James Beirne SCAM!

Joel Bander Law and Luchie Mendoza

Allen | Balita Owner Anthony Allen -

Beirne's General Manager - at Center of

Immigration Fraud Scandal

By Rene Villaroman with

PWD Investigative Team

www.pinoywatchdog.com

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IN the last issue of Pinoy­WatchDog.com we ex­posed how Attorney

Beirne‟s office used three false and non-existent companies as a

front to scam Fili­pino Reynaldo Anson Villarica of Cavite out of

thousands of dollars of immigration fees. Beirne‟s law office

forwarded Notice of Job Availability that our investigators determined

had a false company, fake address and phone number having no

relationship to any em­ployers at all.

New documents have now surfaced demonstrating that An­thony

Allen, the general manager of Beirne Law Offices, was direct­ly

involved in trying to hide the fact that a non-existent employer

sponsor was used to lure Mr. Vil­larica to pay exhorbitant legal fees

to the Beirne Law Office for a non-attainable green card. Mr. Allen is

also the co-owner of Balita Newspapers, along with his wife, Luchie

Mendoza Allen. Numerous court filings and testi­mony in federal

proceedings have discussed that Anthony Allen and his wife Luchie

Mendoza Allen are the real non-attorney owners of Beirne Law

Offices.

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On February 13, 2002, An­thony Allen wrote Mr. Villarica that he

would charge him extra legal fees to hasten the processing of the

employment visa from the false company. The letter states that

“there should not be any prob­lem getting the current sponsor to

sign an RIR petition for you.”This letter was signed by Anthony

Al­len without any indication that he was not a lawyer. However, left

unanswered is how a non-existent company could sign anything at

all.

Mr. Villarica dutifully paid yet another attorney fee to the Beirne Law

Office for an expedited pro­cessing known as Reduction in

Recruitment (RIR). However, the U.S. Department of Labor re­turned

the filing to the Beirne Law Office, stating that numerous

„de­ficiencies‟ existed, and request­ing an amended filing.

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However, Beirne Law Office never made further efforts to

expedite the visa application after taking Villarica‟s money and

being told by the gov­ernment the filing was defective. Then,

one year later, Mr. An­thony Allen, on February 6, 2003, wrote

Mr. Vil­larica again, stat­ing that the false employer was “no

longer in a posi­tion to sponsor you.” The letter continues “the

good news is, that you are a 245(i) beneficiary. This means that

the 245(i) waiver can be transferred to a new immigrant-based

petition.”

An immigra­tion lawyer who processed hundreds of

employ­ment based petitions during this period said that the

“245(i) waiver being transferable is simply false. The initial

petition had to be ap­proveable when filed. Since this was a

fake company there was no priority date that could have been

preserved. From my review of the file the Beirne office clearly

knew this the whole way through the process.”

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The letter continues that “there is no need [for Villarica] to

respond to the letter” as another petition was being processed

on his behalf. “This is also crazy,” the immigration lawyer said.

“An employment visa beneficiary does not sit at home without

any in­ was a fake company there was no priority date that could

have been preserved. From my review of the file the Beirne office

clearly knew this the whole way through the process.”

The letter continues that “there is no need [for Villarica] to

respond to the letter” as another petition was being processed

on his behalf. “This is also crazy,” the immigration lawyer said.

“An employment visa beneficiary does not sit at home without

any in­volvement in the petition. The em­ployer and employee

both must be involved.” The experienced im­migration lawyer

asked that their name not be used, as Balita Media is quite

ruthless in attacking any­one who criticizes them.

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The February 6, 2003 Antho­ny Allen letter also did not indi­cate that

he was not an attorney. Many commentators to

Pinoy­WatchDog.com have advised that they thought Anthony Allen

was their lawyer and were led to be­lieve that he was an attorney.

Mr. Villarica told Pinoy­WatchDog.com that until he saw other

similar articles about Attor­ney Beirne‟s office in our news­paper

that he was afraid to talk to anyone about these experiences. He

told me that the last time he visited the Beirne Law Office to

com­plain he said that An­thony Allen held him by the arm very

firmly and said, “You have to be patient, these things take time.”

Villarica recently told PinoyWatchDog. com that “the way he was

holding me, I felt very threatened. I never contacted them again.”

Anthony Al­len is about six foot four.

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“Now that these documents have been explained to me it all makes

sense now what they were doing to me. I had no way of knowing

back then.” Villarica said. “At least others will now know how the

Beirne Law Firm operates so other Filipinos will not be hurt.”

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