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An American woman living in Massachusetts has been accused by the Department of Justice of arranging sham marriages to help her clients seek green cards and US citizenship.

Jennifer Gonzalez, a US citizen, collected up to $40,000 per marriage and arranged as many as 20 per year over the last decade, according to Leah Foley, the US attorney for the Massachusetts District.

Gonzalez’s female employees, who were also charged, married the men looking to get legal status in the US, authorities said.

“This conspiracy netted her $6 million during the course of the alleged scam,” Foley said during a news conference Wednesday at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. “She bragged that she invested her ill-gotten proceeds in businesses and property in the Dominican Republic, which she repeatedly referred to as ‘my country.'”

It appears Gonzalez spilled the details of the scheme to a witness cooperating with federal law enforcement.…