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A federal judge sentenced former USCIS officer Amara Dukuly to a year and a day for aiding bribery.
On Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2026, U.S. District Judge John Milton Younge sentenced Amara Dukuly, 44, of Parkside, Pennsylvania, to a year and a day in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a $6,000 fine, and $6,000 in restitution after a March guilty plea to aiding and abetting the bribery of a public official.
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A federal sentence after a guilty plea is a conviction result, not an open accusation. The Delaware County Daily Times reported Dukuly, a former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services immigration officer in Philadelphia fraud detection and national security, admitted aiding and abetting bribery in exchange for an official act. The prison term, supervised release, fine, and restitution are the court's judgment on that plea.
The Delaware County Daily Times reported that on Oct. 1, 2026, Judge John Milton Younge sentenced Amara Dukuly, 44, of Parkside, to a year and a day in federal prison after he pleaded guilty in March to aiding and abetting the bribery of a public official in exchange for an official act. The sentence also includes three years of supervised release, a $6,000 fine, and $6,000 in restitution. A sentence after a plea is the judgment on the count admitted.
According to the complaint and affidavit summarized by the Times, citing Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General Special Agent Clyde Parsons, Dukuly was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Liberia and a U.S. Army veteran employed by USCIS in fraud detection and national security in Philadelphia. The filing said he investigated suspicious immigration-benefit filings but did not have authority to interfere with applications not assigned to him. Those background facts are from the charging papers as reported. The conviction rests on the plea.
The Times recounted alleged bribery episodes dating back years, including a recorded April 4, 2025, Eddystone Walmart parking-lot meeting in which Dukuly solicited money from a confidential source who claimed to want a "terrorist" label removed from a record. The complaint said neither Dukuly nor any other immigration officer had accessed that source's file as of the complaint date. Those are investigative allegations that supported the charge. The guilty plea and Oct. 1 sentence are the adjudication on the bribery-aiding count.
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