Thai Restaurant Cooked Up Pad Thai and Sham Marriages

Local Thai restaurant chain Thai Ginger is at the center of an immigration fraud conspiracy. Restaurant owner Varee Bradford was arrested yesterday for assembling "sham marriages" between four Thai nationals--three of which were her relatives--and Thai Ginger employees. Bradford had offered $10,000-$20,000 to select restaurant workers with U.S. residency that could move up the chain's corporate ladder, simply by agreeing to marry her relatives until death green card do they part. Now Bradford is looking at a maximum prison term of five years on the conspiracy charge and ten years for each of the document fraud counts.