26 January 2002: Add Richard Maksymiuk comment. Add message on general situation of exploited immigrant workers.
23 January 2002: Add reader comments. Additional comments welcome; send to jya@pipeline.com
22 January 2002
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Please help me. I need humanitarian help.
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Richard Maksymiuk
280 Luis Munoz Blvd. / 4M
Jersey City NJ 07302
richardm@jungle.net
richard.m@mailandnews.com
Fax 630 982 0421
Tel 201 332 7783
I am Australian citizen.
Email & Fax are the best way to contact me.
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Dear Attorney, INS Director, Consul, Manager, Officer, Friend,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In couple of days, I am expecting that I will be asked to vacate my
apartment and go to sleep on the streets of Jersey City.
I am not able to pay any longer my rent of $625 per month, because I do
not have money and I can not find any job here. I have been told by New
York State INS office and by New Jersey State INS office that I can not
work in USA. If I do, I would commit federal crime.
My H1-B work visa is not transferable to another corporation. The waiting
period in INS to relocate H1-B visa is not shorter than 12 months. With
such as INS discrimination, it is impossible for normally operating
business to wait 12 months for INS processing H1-B visa documents. The
normally operating business is advertising open positions when the is need
to employ new people.
I can not move out from USA because I do not have money to buy Air ticket
for myself and for my private items that I collected in the time I worked
and lived here in USA. I can not get unemployment benefit, because I am
not American. I can not get social / welfare help, because I am not
American.
I am receiving discrimination treatments after discrimination treatments,
every time when I am asking people and USA government for help.
I do not have place to go, I do not have finance to pay my new
accommodation, if I would find one. It is impossible to find apartment to
rent without sufficient steady, documented income.
I do not have money to buy food.
I do not have money to do what I should do to survive here in USA.
The situation that I am now in, is in - humane, it is debilitating, it is
in - justice.
I need humanitarian help.
I need your help to resolve my work discrimination issues that are pending
from the past. Resolving work discrimination issues would help me to
resolve my accommodation problems.
I started my 2 years long Computer Network specialist job in USA, in May
1997. The American company CCC [ Chelsea Computer Consultants in NYC ]
[Cryptome:
September 1999: MSX International acquired Chelsea Computer Consultants, Inc.,
headquartered in New York. MSXI brags: "With annual sales of $1 billion, MSX
International has more than 10,000 employees at 117 operating locations
in 26 countries."]
sponsored my H1-B [ at least Degree Educated with at least 5 years work
experience ] work visa. The CCC company promised me Green Card [ INS
Permanent Resident permit ] before my 2 years long contract would expire.
In return I accepted 50% reduction in my contract salary. Before my 2
years long contract expired, my employer terminated employment contract &
H1-B visa agreement. CCC declined to issue Green Card, declined to
compensate for the remaining months agreed work, declined / withhold my
last 6 weeks of salary pay, declined to give back my personal items that I
was force to live in the work office, declined to issue return Air ticket
to my country, declined to compensate my losses due to unfavorable
contract termination, declined to compensate my wrongful work termination,
declined to compensate wrongly calculated normal day salary, declined to
compensate wrongly calculated overtimes, declined to compensate wrongly
calculated Night Shift salary, declined to compensate wrongly calculated
Week Ends salary, declined to compensate unlawful contract salary
reduction of 30% at the first day of my job. These are some of the most
important work discrimination issues that have been executed by my former
employer, CCC. The work discrimination issue here is in relation to my
alien status in USA. The work contract and all these discrimination
manipulations CCC made because I was lock - out of any possibility to
reject, decline, not accept. I was facing in the past, starting on the
first day of my employment, CCC threat of terminating my contract and
living me on the street, together with CCC request to compensate they
expenses in the amount of about $5,000, plus me covering Air ticket to
return back to Australia. As the matter of fact, I received that threat
from CCC on the first day of my employment.
To not immerse myself in bigger problems and difficulties, from my first
day of work in May 1997, I retreated back and stayed quiet in fear of not
ending my professional work experience on the street without money.
The environment that I was working in [ JP Morgan & Salomon Smith Barney (SSB)
in NYC ] and the surrounding fear of contract termination together with
all the work discrimination issues that CCC created for me, created as I
should expect, adverse effect on my perceived happiness.
After about 20 months of continuous contract work, 12 months for JP Morgan
and 8 months for SSB, CCC terminated my contract.
Almost immediately after contract termination, I reported to New Jersey
Unemployment office in Jersey City, and my request for unemployment
benefit was declined. I was told that I do not have any rights to receive
unemployment benefit because I am not American. I was left without income
almost on the street by USA government. Couple of days ago, one of legal
people informed me that I have in fact legal rights to receive
unemployment benefit as long as I did pay unemployment insurance, which
should be visible on my pay slip as SUI deduction. My employer did deduct
from my pay unemployment insurance. I would ask for back pay of my
unemployment benefit very soon.
Almost at the same time, in Feb 1999 I reported to NYC INS office at 26
Federal Plaza. I went to INS for help to recover my losses and file
Federal Criminal complain against CCC company. I presented all my
documents that proved work discrimination and my financial losses to the
INS officer. INS worker directed me to the special division, Work Crime
Investigation department. In that department, I presented my complain
documents and INS armed officer blow - up all of my expectations by
telling me that he and Investigations department will not do anything to
help me bring justice to CCC employer. He, [ he refused to provide his
full name, arguing that the is no contractual obligation on him to do so
because he will not start investigation ] did tell me that as long as will
put my feet on USA soil as H1-B visa worker, I do not have any legal
rights in USA, specially against visa sponsor, he explicitly did say that
"any dog on the street has more legal rights then you". He explained to me
that his department will not start any investigation against employer,
because it is reticules. Investigations department is conduction
investigations and prosecutions and deportations when employee is
committing all sort of crimes, but not employer. He did tell me that "we
are after you, not employer". He did say that "your complain is of no
interest to me, have a good day".
I issued official request to my former employer, CCC in the form of email
and certified mail. In my complain, I requested CCC to compensate my
losses, to return my personal belongings, to return my Passport & Visa
documents. In return I received CCC company demands to cover they losses
in the amount of about $5,000. The CCC did not reply to my demands for the
next several months. The CCC owner, responded to my request to compensate
my losses when I sent email to all the USA employees in CCC with full
description of the work discrimination and requested compensation amount.
The CCC attorney responded and categorically declined in the next several
replies that all my demands are without any value and they are reticules.
I provided detailed description and numbers for every item that I was
asking to compensate.
The total amount of my losses as of the end of July 2001 was $686,355.
At the same time, I would like to locate any suitable attorney that could
help me to win my case in court. I struck the wall of nobody who could
help me to work with me on contingency / commission base principle. I
received many propositions from attorneys who would like to work on hourly
base with me, they did ask for $250 to $150 per hour, but no one would
talk about the option to go with me to court and win my case, despite the
facts and documented work discrimination data.
In the same time, I committed myself to commit federal crime and start to
work illegally. I distributed several hundreds work applications with my
resume, delivered by email and fax, to open and relevant positions to my
last 2 contracts that I had in JP Morgan and SSB, Senior Computer Network
Specialist [ I have more than 15 years Computer Network Engineer
experiences, plus Master of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor
Degree in Mechanical Engineering educated, plus Certified Network
Administrator [ CNA ] and Certified Network Engineer [ CNE ] in Novell
Networks computer systems ]. The spite of my extensive experience and
formal University education, together with worldwide recognized Trade
Certification, I could not get placement. From time to time, I was able to
discover that in the normal course of business, almost all companies
contacted CCC employment staff, and CCC people did extraordinary job of
badmouth about me and my work related issues. Any attempt to correct and
explain the real problems and the roots of all discrepancies, was ended
with phrase "we do not like to be involved". I was left basically on the
street.
In June 2001 I desperately went to NYC INS office and I did ask for help.
In almost the same fashion, I was directed to Investigations Department,
and again I presented all my details to the INS officer. I receive no
resolution, no complain INS filed. INS officer told me that INS can not do
anything to the employer, CCC. The INS officer advised me to go to Newark
INS office, the INS office of the place of my living, maybe Newark could
help me.
I went next week to Newark INS office. I did wait 7 hours in the queue
outside the INS building, in the middle of NYC hot summer day. When I
finally went to inside the building, the INS officer did tell me that I
need to go to Investigators Department, she explained me that
Investigators are not any longer located in Newark INS office, the are
outside Newark, on the bus route to Newark Airport at Hemisphere Center.
The Hemisphere Center is holding Detention and Deportation office. The
Newark Investigations Department INS officer conducted extended
interrogation with me. He collected some of my documents, he made copy of
my document which is describing all details of my interaction with CCC. He
created report and informed me that legally he and his department would
not do anything against CCC company, but he would only send his report to
INS regional / central office for consideration. Depending on the outcome
of higher level of department, I should be contacted and informed of they
decision. The INS officer advised me to contact NY State Attorney General
office, he did say "maybe Attorney General would help you".
I went next week to 120 Broadway NYC, to see Attorney General Mr. Spitzer.
I was not allowed to see AG Mr. Spitzer, instead one of the AG
investigators went through all my work discrimination issues. He inspected
many of my facts & documents, he made many copies and did say that AG
Office will contact me in due time. For the next 2 weeks nobody contacted
me, I went to visit AG office again to get appropriate information. My
request has been served by one of the investigators, he did say that he do
not know what is the progress of my Criminal Complaint I did file 2 weeks
ago. He did tell me that he can not find is happening with my complain,
because after complain has been dispatched from Investigation section, he
has no control of my complain. He ask me to wait, I should receive letter
from AG Mr. Spitzer.
I did wait about another 2 weeks, I did not receive any correspondence
from AG Mr. Spitzer. I would like to say that when I filed my Criminal
Complaint form, I provided 4 different and distinctive forms of contact,
email, fax, mail, phone. I indicated that the best form of communication,
would be email and fax. I distinctively highlighted that information on my
complain form. I received almost the same response, as I did receive 2
weeks ago, "We do not know what is happening with your complain, AG Mr.
Spitzer will contact you in due time. The best you can do is wait."
In approximately 2 weeks time, I visited AG Mr. Spitzer office again. I
received the same stupid response as I received 2 weeks ago and 4 weeks
ago. I would like to say that it was not much of difficulty for me to take
1 stop Subway train and walk to AG Mr. Spitzer office, instead of send him
letter. I am living yards away from his office.
The next 2 inquiries I did in the form of letters, it was after WTC was
destroyed. It was and it is less cumbersome to send AG Mr. Spitzer letter
than take train to WTC. My 2 inquiries by letters were left un-answered.
In last week I contacted AG Mr. Spitzer office by phone, I could not get
through to appropriate people on first attempt, I had to call AG Mr.
Spitzer office several times, every time someone else was attempting to
help but I did not receive any solid information what is happening with my
Criminal Complaint. Finally after several pushes, I received Fax from AG
Mr. Spitzer office. In that fax, person which sent it [ the person did not
identified itself by name ] was apologizing for any inconvenience that
situation may caused me. The anonymous officer included letter back -
dated 4 months [ from 26 Sep 2001 ] from Assistant Attorney General, Mr.
Weiss. Mr. Weiss letter was informing me that NY State AG office does not
represent the State in criminal actions. He directed me in this 4 months
old letter to report CCC criminal activities to the District Attorney of
the county in which it occurred.
I would like to call this just bad luck, but it is not. First, if the
issue is so clear, why investigator for the AG Mr. Spitzer office do not
know this basic fact, what is and what is not under AG Mr. Spitzer office
jurisdictions. Second, this preliminary sort should be made on spot,
almost instantaneously to not waste petitioner time. Here it took almost 4
months. Third, when Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Weiss finally decided
that "it is not his business" but someone lower under Department of
Justice [DoJ ] jurisdiction, instead waiting 4 months to tell me that, it
would be correct to delegate all my documents to appropriate department,
in appropriate place.
I am expecting that such adverse treatment I received is the result of my
Australian nationality instead of been American. This is another example
of discrimination executed base on the country of origin. Specifically
now, after Sep 11 WTC tragedy. I do not see anything else except
discrimination instigated now at AG Mr. Spitzer office. No other
explanation would be valid in addressing this treatment.
Last week, as I already described at the beginning of this document, NJ
Superior Court decided against me in Landlord Tenant case. On 16 Jan 2002,
I did ask Court to adjourn my session because I have very serious
difficulty to find legal help / representation. I asked for couple more
weeks to arrange attorney. Court declined my plea, I was left myself to
defend against attorney representing Landlord. When I contacted several
government sponsored legal help organizations, every time my plea for help
was turned down. In all the places, I was told that I can not obtain any
help because I am not American. All despite the fact that I legally
entered this country, that I worked in this country for almost 2 years and
I did pay taxes to USA IRS office.
I can not wait any longer and hope that Mr. Altman [of CCC] will lawfully
compensate my loses. I am asking you for help to prosecute Mr. Altman and
punish him and his companies for work discrimination, falsifying DoJ INS
documents, unlawful withholding of work pay, refusing to return back
valuable personal items, withholding return Air Ticket and other numerous
unlawful wrongdoing practices. The list is very long, to long to have it
here in this introduction. I am asking you to help me to stop all
Immigration and H1-B work visa activities that Mr. Altman is in capacity
today, your help may affect more than 250 H1-B visa Body Shop workers. I
am asking you to help me recover all of my losses that entrapment and
false promises created by Mr. Altman. I need your help and legal
assistance to issues related to employment discrimination and abuse of
power created by his Employment Agencies in H1-B Work Visa Immigration
issues.
The 2 companies from which I experienced Employment Discrimination and
H1-B work visa SCAM practices and Green Card SCAM are owned by Mr. Michael
Altman. The companies should be considered as Employment Agencies only,
but are more correctly labeled as BODY SHOPS.
Chelsea Computer Consultants Inc. Millennium Computer Systems, Inc.
156 Fifth Avenue / Suite 1218 54 West 21st Street / Suite 406
New York City NY 10010 New York City NY 10010
Ph 212-807-9898 Fax 212-807-6908 Ph 212-244-6757 Fax 212-244-5082
I have lost thousands of dollars here in USA, I have lost thousands of
dollars in Australia. I am losing hope to recover my losses due to that
work contract that I signed in 1997 in Sydney without help from an
experienced attorney.
Almost 20 years of my live in Australian has been destroyed, my marriage
has been destroyed, my financial position has been destroyed, my
professional status & reference has been destroyed. All that because Mr.
Altman warranted personally for me to provide Green Card before my 24
months H1-B visa contract will expire. I accepted Mr. Altman promise and
entered 50% discounted compensation employment contract in USA.
Today my funds are non-existent.
It is impossible for me to rent any longer my current apartment.
I do not have any way to arrange new employment because my work H1-B visa
is valid only for these two Mr. Altman companies. Mr. Altman is denying
all wrong doing and is not cooperating. Mr. Altman knows that I have very
negligible chances alone to win against him and his $20 millions per year
revenue businesses.
I am DISCRIMINATED PROFESSIONAL SLAVE, I am highly educated and
experienced professional, but without much needed legal representation &
resident status. I am subjected to identical treatment as other at least
250 similar H1-B visa people CCC and Mr. Altman petitioned for from
Australia and other South East countries. All this information would be
confirmed by these people.
My losses calculated as at the end of July 2001 are $686,355. Full
itemized and detailed document is describing these calculations.
My full length document which is describing in details Work
Discrimination, Abuse of Power, Body Shop Immigration Scam and Green Card
Scam is about 30 pages long. The originals and copies of all documents
that are supporting these facts are in volume of about 100 pages.
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From: richardm <AT> jungle <DOT> net
To: jya@pipeline.com
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:01:53 -0500
To: jya@pipeline.com
From: S
Subject: http://cryptome.org/thug-screw.htm
I just finished examining the document you posted above, and I want to
caution you about posting it. First though, I want to make it clear that I
am in no way associated with any of the companies he speaks of. There is
no conflict of interest, in that regard. Now, here is what I have inferred
from this man's rambling letter.
He claims to be Australian but his English is terrible, and constantly
fragmented. No, poor use of English is not something normally to be
concerned about, but he claims to be a H1-B high tech worker - that
requires industry experience as well as post-high school
education. Despite public perceptions, a high tech education does not mean
eliminate the need for college-level writing skills. It is possible
emotion could be clouding his editorial skills, but many of the errors are
repeated throughout the document in identical fashion, so I am discounting
the emotion excuse.
For an Australian citizen complaining of no funds to return home, he has
not contacted his own government to assist him in the matter. I'm certain
that if a skilled high tech worker contacted their home country's embassy
or consulate in dire straights, that government would make some effort to
arrange the voyage home. He does not even mention it.
Also, he makes some rather libelous claims towards a Mr. Altman. True
or not, Cryptome is being used to publicize this.
We are both aware that there are many who would like to see Cryptome
shut down. And from what you have revealed in the past, attempts have been
made, both overt and otherwise. You've had your share of discreditation
attempts, and if I recall the last one led you to out Safeweb as a DoD/CIA
backed company. But I digress..
Something about that person's cry for help smells. The pieces do not
fit into a coherent and reasonable tale. I've learned that coincidence is
a far rarer commodity than I was led to believe. And as a long time reader
of Cryptome, I had to share my instincts with you on this matter. Be very
careful.
____________
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002
To: S
From: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: http://cryptome.org/thug-screw.htm
Thanks very much for your comments. I share some of your
doubts. Still, the story's account rings true in comparison
to others' experiences here in New York -- where it is all
too common to exploit high-tech immigrant workers.
Perhaps Richard exaggerates his misfortunes but I know
employers do the same when deciding to get rid of
employees who complain of their treatment. All this can
be sorted out in suitable forums, one of the best being
public exposure.
From: richardm@jungle.net
Date: 25 Jan 2002 17:25:55 -0000
To: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Global Corporate Thug Screws Alien Slave
I do not know how one small part has not been included in my letter to you.
The part that was not included is:
When I contacted several government sponsored legal help organizations, the last
one that I contacted was: Hudson County Legal Services in 574 Summit Avenue in
Journal Square NJ, every time my plea for help was turned down. In all the
places, I was told that I can not obtain any help because I am not American. All
despite the fact that I legally entered USA country on Work permitting H1-B visa,
that I worked in this country for almost 2 years as invited professional computer
network specialist, and I did pay taxes to USA IRS office.
I had the same treatment when I contacted Welfare Agency in Hudson County in 100
Newkirk Street Jersey City NJ. In that organization I was told that I can not get
any welfare assistance, I was asking for Housing Assistance, unless I have steady
income. In other words, when I am working and have documented employment, I could
apply for Welfare assistance. The Hudson County Welfare organization would not
provide help when I do not work, when I do not have steady income. Because I can
not legally work in USA for any company except Mr. Altman's Chelsea Computer
Consultants company, which unlawfully terminated my work, respectively Hudson
County Welfare organization has discriminated against people in distributing their
assistance. Their discrimination is based on the country of origin.
This is un - humanitarian USA Government rule, it is un - logical too. !!!
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I, an average educated and intelligent person would assume / understand, that
when people are in need of help, almost always people are not or / and can not
work. That is almost universally understood chain of events. People need
humanitarian help from Welfare Agency when they are not working and cannot be
employed for some reasons.
I was told that Welfare Organization would not provide help when a person does not
have steady income, and would provide humanitarian help when person has steady
income. I can not understand this, it is not logical.
This USA Government rule / treatment is un - humane. My understanding is that
people in the know, do not know this or / and they do not care what kind of help
should be available to what people.
Welfare help & rules should work other way around !!!
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From: "Diane Alden" <polaris8@bellsouth.net>
To: <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: The Thug Screw piece
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:16:30 -0800
I write for Newsmax and this story on Cryptome fits into a story I am
working on. I read the email from S and I think he does not know what he is
talking about. Being a good engineer or computer wonk from the Far East does
not come with the skills of Shakespeare -- even if the guy is a citizen of
Australia. In any event here is another letter sent to me on a similar
topic. It might help clarify the letter from the Australian who probably is
a Pakistani or Indian immigrant.
Best
Diane Alden
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Hello,
This is to inform you that despite the events of September 11, 2001, there
has been an increase in the racket of fake Degrees and experience
certificates holders from India/Bangladesh/Pakisthan.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) estimates that there are
about 6 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a number which
increases by more than 200,000 per year. Please add at least 50000 per year
legal border crossers (or guest workers) have fake papers.
H-1B applicants are falsifying academic and work credentials (easy if you
have a printer at home), and in many cases American employers are acting as
nothing more than agencies for temporary employees. They are exploiting the
government, American citizens and Permanent resident (LPR)and of course the
hopeful H1-B. Also for personal gains, the Tech. companies are overstating
the scope of worker shortages to maintain a steady supply of foreign-born
employees willing to work longer hours for much lower wages and this can be
supported by the less use of H1-B this year. They are also very aware that
many of them have fake qualifications and degrees. Most of these Companies
are not willing to hire Americans workers as they are much more expensive
than foreign workers.
We are observing some Sub-contracting Companies that are hiring foreign
workers in NJ/NY having no qualification or under qualified for Computer
related jobs. Recruiters are bringing these people to USA from India and
other Countries on Visitor visas and then converting their visa to an H1-B.
Also Important to note here is some of these candidates applying for H1-B
are just ordinary graduates (2 years in college) with literature or History
and such others as their subjects and in no way can be called a College
graduate in American standard. These people have never worked as Computer
consultant in those Countries.
We tried to contact the New York/New Jersey offices of the INS fraud
department (973-645-2240)and we were told that they are not really keen on
this matter, its too complicated. They were more interested in borders
crossers, the eternal Mexican Issue. Now imagine where legally the number
(approx: 350000 each year legally) of people coming in this country is way
beyond illegal border crosser and even if 20% of them carry fake ids,
degrees and experience then it becomes equivalent to the illegal border
crossers.
We have been working on these issues for more than 2 years with any support
from the local INS. We wish someone would take up the cause from here.
We have been able to procured a copy of a fake degree and experience
certificate of a candidate randomly selected from a local Sub-contracting
Company. This person is working on an H1-B and was grated such visa based on
his fake degree. Interested to learn more?? Just send an email.
Thanks
SJ
[No e-mail address for SJ was provided.]