Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Conman stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in search of a green card, pose as a federal agent.
Tommy Agee da Silva Wen, 49, who went under the nickname “Jackie,” is said to have said he is a federal law enforcement officer and could help her quickly invest her green card if she invests $500,000 with him.
Prosecutors said Weng of Flushing manipulated the fraud scheme between June 2016 and March 2024.
A month later, Weng met with the victim on Flushing, where he forked the check for $501,500, which was paid to Ding Cheng Overseas Management Inc., a company owned by Weng. Weng flashed a law enforcement badge and gave the woman a business card from the “Federal Officers Police Association.”
At the meeting, Weng gave the woman a Form I-526 receipt containing numbers that allowed her to track the process of her application on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
The website indicated that the application was ongoing, but according to court documents there was no name associated with the application.
Weng then lied for several years and leaned along the victims, informing them that the Fed said the application was delayed due to delays in management to cover up the scheme.
At another meeting in October 2022, Wen allegedly told the victim that he had worked for the US Department of Homeland Security but would move to a new position at Interpol in Milan, Italy.
The obvious ambition of the con man to be a federal agent was driving the Red Hammer on a vanity license plate with the words “bwtice.”
Wen was arrested Friday morning in Brooklyn.
Prosecutors said the agent had recovered several fake documents claiming Weng was a federal agent, including mobile phones with the Interpol logo and an ID card membership for the “International Police Agency.”
He has been charged with federal officials' wire fraud, mail fraud and false person charges, and faces up to 43 years in prison if convicted.
This is the second time he has been accused of impersonating an FBI agent.
Weng pleaded guilty in February 2016 to the illegal use of official badges after pretending to be a special FBI agent. He admitted to having fake FBI, Ice and NYPD badges, and went even further to enhance his story by purchasing bulletproof vests, handcuffs, handcuffs, handguns and ice hats.
He was declared time served in that case.
Wen was waiting for his arrest in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon.
