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Former Orange County Resident AdmitsTo Immigrant Fraud Scheme A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to grand larceny in connection with a scheme to defraud immigrants with false promises of expedited immigration proceedings. Byron Castillo, who lived in Middletown, admitted in Tuesday, Jan. 8, that he had defrauded a recent immigrant from Ecuador, by promising her that he would arrange to have her relatives obtain United States visas, and would also provide them with false visa documents and plane tickets, said the Orange County District Attorney's office. The office said they plan to recommend a sentence of one to three years in state p…

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