Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 190.89 Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree.
A person is guilty of immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree when, with intent to defraud another person seeking immigrant assistance services, as defined in article twenty-eight-C of the general business law, from such person, he or she violates section four hundred sixty-d of the general business law with intent to obtain property from such other person by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, and thereby wrongfully obtains such property with a value in excess of one thousand dollars.
Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree is a class E felony.
With intent to defraud someone seeking immigrant-assistance services, a person commits first-degree fraud by violating General Business Law § 460-d to obtain property through false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises and wrongfully obtaining property worth more than $1,000. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.