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A former Lafayette stockbroker and financial consultant was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for defrauding illegal aliens in federal custody.

According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Donald Domingue, 59, of Lafayette was sentenced on one count of wire fraud, which entaileda scheme to take money from the families of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, promising that he would provide the ICE detainees assistance.

He was also ordered to pay $10,965 in restitution and a $10,000 fine.

Domingue owned and operated a company in Lafayette that claimed to assist individuals held in ICE detention centers, the March 2017 guilty plea states. Through this company, American Immigration Consulting LLC, Domingue operated a scheme to defraud ICE detainees, the release states.

The scheme began in April 2014 and ended in October 2014.

"He would make mass mailings to ICE detention centers around the country advertising his services in representing illegal aliens and assisting them with their immigration problems," the release states."Those detainees would then contact family members who would pay Domingue in exchange for promises that Domingue would aid the detainees."

Upon receiving payment, however, Domingue stopped communicating with the ICE detainees and their family members and fail to render the promised immigration services. The ICE detainees were generally deported.

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