Charges levied against Chinese nationals accused in fraud scheme involving Jacksonville Navy sailors

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against 11 people accused of running a scheme that recruited U.S. service members into sham marriages with Chinese nationals to obtain immigration benefits and military identification cards. Greg Kehoe, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, said the indictment includes two counts: a conspiracy to recruit U.S. citizens — “preferably members of the United States armed forces” — to enter fraudulent marriages with citizens of the People’s Republic of China, and a bribery conspiracy to obtain Department of Defense common access cards, or CACs. Reporter Ariel Schiller has the latest