United States v. Abhijit Prasad

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10454 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 3:18-cr-00368-

CRB-

ABHIJIT PRASAD,

Defendant-Appellant. OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Charles R. Breyer, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 9, 2021 San Francisco, California

Filed November 8, 2021

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Morgan Christen, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bade; Concurrence by Judge Christen SUMMARY *

Criminal

The panel affirmed the district court’s forfeiture order under 18 U.S.C. § 982(a)(6)(A)(ii) in the amount of $1,193,440.87, in a case in which a jury convicted Abhijit Prasad of twenty-one counts of visa fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a), and two counts of aggravated identity theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1).

Prasad owned and operated Maremarks, a company through which Prasad filed petitions seeking H-1B status for nonimmigrant, foreign workers in specialty occupations to come to the United States as Maremarks’…