A Liberian man who U.S. authorities say served as general in a rebel group that sought to overthrow the West African nation's president two decades ago was arrested and charged with immigration fraud, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Laye Sekou Camara, 43, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, is accused of falsely denying he had affiliations with an insurgent group and other misrepresentations when he applied for a non-immigrant visa in 2011 and an immigrant visa in 2012.
Camara is accused of being a former leader of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, a group accused of recruiting child soldiers to fight in the country's 1999-2003 civil wars. He used the visas to enter and remain the United States, the department said in a press release.
