GREEN card

An Irish immigrant service in Boston has warned about bogus lawyers promising people a green card to allow them work and live legally in the United States. Lawyer Paul Lavery warned people about handing cash over to people promising inside knowledge of the immigration system. Anyone who has heard of Ralph Cucciniello will know this is an age-old scam. Serial con-artist Cucciniello caught several hundred Irish immigrants for thousands of dollars in a clever scam. He successfully gave the impression he was a lawyer based in Yale where he really did some volunteer researching for a professor. He's now in jail doing 30 years after he was snared by Irish private-eye Olwyn Triggs. Read about him in The Fraudsters.