Six women charged in marriage scam.

Brides assisting illegal immigrants charged with perjury.

NEW YORK, July 10 � Here comes the bride. Here she comes again. And again. Six New York City women who swore they had not been married before were issued 43 marriage licenses to wed illegal immigrants so the men could stay in the United States, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. Each woman got up to $1,000 for each marriage.

ONE OF THE WOMEN received 27 marriage licenses in Manhattan between 1984 and 2002 so she could marry men from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico and a few other countries, Morgenthau said Wednesday.

The woman also applied for marriage licenses in Florida, Morgenthau said, and he believes she may have gotten licenses elsewhere in the New York metropolitan area.
�I figured she should go in the Guinness Book of Records,� he said.

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