Reports: Connecticut Official Runs Fraudulent Marriage Factory for Migrants; Arrested Pol Builds Marriage Biz

Reports: Connecticut Official Runs Fraudulent Marriage Factory for Migrants:

A Connecticut bureaucrat is being accused of running an immigrant marriage scam to push Joe Biden’s migrants into legal status before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. And she is not the only one.

Wanda Geter-Pataky, who is a justice of the peace at New Haven City Hall, has allegedly been caught officiating at a string of controversial weddings that some assume are meant to fraudulently push migrants into legal status.

She allegedly officiated more than 100 of these marriages a month during the Biden regime, according to the CT Mirror.

The Mirror added that many of these marriages are between migrants and American citizens who do not even live in her state. Recently, she married couples from Texas, New York, and Virginia, the news group said.

WVIT-TV reports discovering 114 licenses from marriages Geter-Pataky performed between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15.

Geter-Pataky is no stranger to controversy. She is the same woman who was fired from her government job in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for being involved in suspicious ballot activity during the city’s mayoral contest in 2023.

Geter-Pataky was eventually charged with tampering with a witness, misrepresenting eligibility requirements for voting by absentee ballot, and failure to sign as assister on an absentee ballot. She is expected to have a jury trial on the charges starting next month.

State Sen. Stephen Harding (R) is calling for an investigation into the possibly sham marriages.

“We’re simply asking for the attorney general’s office to do what they do in many cases and investigate whether there’s illegal activity occurring,” Harding said.

Still, the state’s Democrat Attorney General, William Tong, waived off involving his office in any investigation of the marriages saying that if there were any violations occurring, they would be violations of federal immigration laws, not state laws. —>READ MORE HERE

Arrested Pol Builds Marriage Biz:

Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall.

One recent day, for instance, Geter-Pataky conducted seven such marriages in New Haven City Hall. All seven involved an Indian-born spouse and an American-born spouse. None came from New Haven, according to their marriage licenses. They claimed they live in Houston, Waterbury, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island, Chesapeake, Virginia.

The nuptial-seekers mirrored similar groups showing up in city halls throughout the state: Couples, mostly with one spouse from India or sometimes other nations, looking to marry an American allegedly from another state. In some cases the dramatic new workload is tying up staffs trying to process marriage licenses and birth certificates for their own city residents. The cities, including New Haven as well as towns like Trumbull, have been wrestling with how to address the challenge and enable their own citizens to obtain licenses and birth certificates while working within the limits of the law.

Clipboard in hand, Geter-Pataky guided a couple at a time into the Office of the Registrar of Vital Statistics on New Haven City Hall’s first floor to fill out their license applications. She steered them to the elevator up to the second floor to marry them in the atrium outside the mayor’s office. Then on to another couple.

As Geter-Pataky accompanied one of the spouses through the hallway, the spouse was asked if she was being paid, as rumored, to engage in the marriage.

“Tell him no,” Geter-Pataky advised the woman.

“No, I’m not,” the woman then replied.

“This is a reporter,” Geter-Pataky then informed men and women scattered on benches and in the hallway outside the first-floor registrar’s office, directing them not to answer questions. A man working in tandem with Geter-Pataky took out his phone and began recording this reporter while ordering him to stop taking photos and to leave the City Hall building.

That day, Oct. 15, was one of many busy, and lucrative, marriage-officiating and handling days for Geter-Pataky. Geter-Pataky became a continual presence at New Haven City Hall in recent months shuffling groups of half-international couples through the marriage process.

Over the month leading up to Oct. 15, Geter-Pataky served as justice of the peace in 114 marriages at New Haven City Hall, according to documents obtained by the Independent under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act. Overall, the number of marriage licenses New Haven granted in that month-long period quadrupled to almost 400 from a year ago, fueled by out-of-state marriages.

Geter-Pataky was asked if the people she was marrying live in New Haven. ​“Yes they do,” she answered.

In fact, in only three of those 114 marriages did any of the applicants list New Haven as their city of residence. Most of the marriages included one spouse from abroad: 79 involved a spouse from India, another 36 from other nations ranging from Georgia (nine) and Tajikistan (four) to Turkey, Russia, Egypt and Jamaica (two apiece). —>READ MORE HERE

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