New York-based writer David Casavis has released a new book titled “The Thomas Carroll Affair… A journey through the cottage industry of illegal immigration” that highlights the worst visa racket in U.S State Department.
The book which was released Tuesday Last deals specifically, with events that occurred during 1998 to 2000; when Thomas Patrick Carroll, a United States citizen, serving as a Foreign Service officer with the United States State Department and appointed vice-counsel in the United States Embassy in Guyana.
The novel revisits what U.S authorities have described as the worst visa racket in U.S State Department history.
Carroll reportedly sold over 800 US visas at a price of between US$10,000 and $15,000 each. Thomas Carroll was found guilty and sentenced to a total of 21 years imprisonment in 2002. He was 38 years old at the time. During the investigations, federal agents raided his house and found large amounts of cash and gold bars; they also found out that Carroll operated about seven bank accounts. The sentence was later slashed by half to 11 years.
Over US$10 Million from the fraudulent sale of US visas was amassed from the sale of fraudulent sale of U.S visas. Thomas Carroll was the Vice Consul at the U.S Embassy in Georgetown in the late 1990′s. He was charged in the year 2000 in connection with the visa racket and sentenced to jail. The racket involved Politicians, businessmen, police officers and criminals elements that formed the racket ring.
The author describe Guyana as a small corrupt country and how an American Embassy official looted it. The book also highlight the links between wanted man Linden Blackie London and the notorious Black clothes squad of the Guyana Police Force and their links to the visa racket. The novel is the most comprehensive compilation on the visa racket. It was released in early June.
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