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The America at Night
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Engin
Yesil's Wake-Up Call: The Korhan Aydin Files
Engin Yesil told me he finally realized the magnitude
of the federal investigations against him and his companies
when he received a call from Turkey, from Korhan Aydin,
a former employee of one of Yesil's companies. Aydin was
seeking a visa to return to the United States to go back
to work for Yesil. According to Yesil, when the visa was
delayed, as was Aydin's right, he requested a copy of
his INS transcript. When Aydin received the transcript,
he saw that the INS had made a mistake: They had included
along with the transcript copies of the State Department
and INS case files on Aydin and his visa application.
Aydin told Yesil, "It's frightening. These guys know
every place I took a crap in my entire life! They investigated
every personal detail about me. They talked to my old
friends and everybody else I ever met. They talked to
every one of my professors, showed them my picture to
see if they remembered me, and to see if I really got
an A in such and such a class and a B in another class.
This is not normal procedure for a visa application, Engin.
And it gets worse. They interviewed me and asked me about
other Turkish guys who went to America to work for you.
They asked if I knew them, what they looked like, if they
really worked in your offices, what their jobs were. They
asked me about thirty names, Engin! This investigation
covers thirty of us. All of us Turkish MBAs who went to
New York or Miami in the last three years to work for
you." Yesil believes the government's investigations
of him and his companies, and the problems he began to
have securing visas for employees, were caused by Hirschfeld
and Sensi falsely reporting to the government that Yesil
was using his companies as a front to smuggle terrorists
into the United States. Shown below are some of the Department
of State's and the INS's case files on Korhan Aydin's
visa application. |
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