The Region - News from Aug. 8, 1986

Two former employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Los Angeles office were convicted in U.S. District Court of accepting bribes to help Taiwanese aliens qualify for U.S. citizenship. A Los Angeles jury deliberated a day before convicting Evelyn Clark, 72, of Los Angeles and Marietta Jones, 33, of Lynwood. Assistant U.S. Atty. Laurie Lou Levenson said that Jones, a former INS desk clerk, steered citizenship applicants to Clark, an immigration examiner, who was accused of overlooking deficiencies in citizenship applications. The women each received up to $500 from each of at least seven Taiwanese aliens who went to the INS office in Los Angeles in 1980 and 1981, Levenson said. Sentencing was set for Sept. 8 before Judge William D. Keller.