Legislation
SECTION 190.89
Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, ARTICLE 190
§ 190.89 Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree.
A person is guilty of immigrant assistance services fraud in the first
degree when, with intent to defraud another person seeking immigrant
assistance services, as defined in article twenty-eight-C of the general
business law, from such person, he or she violates section four hundred
sixty-d of the general business law with intent to obtain property from
such other person by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or
promises, and thereby wrongfully obtains such property with a value in
excess of one thousand dollars.
Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree is a class E
felony.
A person is guilty of immigrant assistance services fraud in the first
degree when, with intent to defraud another person seeking immigrant
assistance services, as defined in article twenty-eight-C of the general
business law, from such person, he or she violates section four hundred
sixty-d of the general business law with intent to obtain property from
such other person by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or
promises, and thereby wrongfully obtains such property with a value in
excess of one thousand dollars.
Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree is a class E
felony.