A “miracle lawyer” who built a massive immigration firm serving Spanish-speaking people is facing a sweeping federal class-action lawsuit accusing her of fraud.
The suit, reviewed by The California Post, was filed June 15 in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington by lead plaintiff Maria Guadalupe Diaz Toscano against Seattle-based immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano Kennedy and her law firm La Luz del Camino Legal PLLC.
It claims the company systematically targeted undocumented immigrants with promises of legal relief before steering them into costly immigration applications that plaintiffs claim had little chance of success.
The proposed class-action suit could encompass thousands of clients across the US.
The complaint also notes Lozano has publicly claimed to have helped “thousands and thousands and thousands” of immigrants, while citing a Washington State disciplinary complaint alleging her signature appears on 53,923 petitions pending with US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the suit says.
The complaint accuses the defendants of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO act, breaching fiduciary duties owed to clients and violating Washington’s Consumer Protection Act through what plaintiffs characterize as deceptive business practices.
“This is a federal class action brought seeking comprehensive civil remedies for a multi-million-dollar industrialized immigration factory disguised as a legitimate law practice,” the complaint states.
The allegations have surfaced alongside reports that Lozano amassed a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio and traveled around the West Coast aboard a pink private jet reportedly worth about $25 million.
According to the lawsuit, Lozano marketed herself to immigrants as the “abogada de los milagros,” or “lawyer of miracles,” allegedly using religious imagery, including the Virgen de Guadalupe, to promote her services while promising immigration “miracles” to desperate clients. --->READ MORE HERE
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New allegations in a lawsuit against former immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano paint an eye-popping picture of the money and assets she gained from her international Tukwila-based business that attracted tens of thousands of clients nationwide.
The self-proclaimed “lawyer of miracles,” who in May gave up her license rather than face a state bar disciplinary hearing but allegedly continued to be involved in her firm, racked up revenues or payment promises of more than $400 million, according to an amended complaint filed Tuesday in Western Washington’s federal court. Attorneys for dozens of former Lozano clients say in the 116-page complaint they calculated the sum based on her average fees, between $10,000 and $15,000, and her number of current clients.
Lozano, directly or through a web of trusts and companies, also owns a private Bombardier jet valued at $25 million and a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio including properties in Mexico, according to the amended complaint.
The bright pink and white plane, as pictured on popular online aviation sites, bears the Spanish word for lawyer, “abogada,” and a logo of a woman with long hair like Lozano’s. The former attorney catered her business to Latinos.
The civil lawsuit is now seeking to put those assets into a trust for the benefit of former clients who are plaintiffs — numbering 34 in the amended complaint, up from the original nine. Many more have sought to join in. Since filing the litigation in May, a three-firm legal team has been contacted by roughly 2,500 former Lozano clients.
The amended complaint is the latest development in a massive, unfurling “scandal” — as a Seattle immigration judge recently put it — that has spawned U.S. Department of Homeland Security and state attorney general investigations, and caused chaos in the immigration system nationwide. Nearly 54,000 immigration applications signed by Lozano were pending nationwide as of March, according to a statement of allegations by the state bar.
That statement, the lawsuit that now has an amended complaint and another lawsuit on behalf of former clients all allege Lozano submitted applications for green cards and other immigration benefits with false information or improper signatures and some were never eligible in the first place. That left clients vulnerable to being put in deportation proceedings. Some already have been. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant syory:
+++++Lawsuit alleges ex-attorney Alexandra Lozano misled immigrants with improper filings+++++
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