An Evans woman who misrepresented herself as a licensed attorney with a Harvard law degree has agreed to shutter her businesses and never work in immigration services again, the Colorado Attorney General's Office announced Thursday.
Shineth Gonzales operated two Greeley-based businesses, US Immigration Services and Colorado Global Schools, for at least the last three years, according to case documents. Gonzales advertised on social media and claimed in an email to clients that she graduated from Harvard Law School with a Doctor of Law (Juris Doctor) degree. She referred to herself as "Dr. Gonzales."
State prosecutors claimed, however, that Gonzales never obtained a law degree from any school. Nor did she or her businesses employ a single paralegal, as advertised.
Additionally, state prosecutors stated in case documents that Gonzales overcharged her clients for services, going so far as to create a fake employee named "Shequioa Daniels," and charging clients for the made-up legal consultant's services.
The 48-year-old Gonzales "could not provide these services, much less charge for them," prosecutors stated in the case's initial filing. "These exorbitant fees exploited vulnerable consumers."
Some of Gonzales's clients were forced to hire licensed attorneys to fix problems she created, prosecutors stated.
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