Carlos De Graca Lopes was sentenced in federal court Thursday on charges including seven counts of visa fraud and four counts of perjury.

Carlos De Graca Lopes was sentenced in federal court Thursday on charges including seven counts of visa fraud and four counts of perjury. man who was accused of torture while working as a prison warden in Cape Verde has been sentenced to three years in prison for lying about his past when he came to the United States.
The U.S. Attorney's office said Lopes, 46, had been ordered by a Cape Verdean court in 2006 to stay in the country. But he obtained a visa to work in the U.S.Shortly after arriving he was discovered and ordered deported. He then applied to remain in the U.S., but falsely denied before an immigration judge that he had ever been arrested or accused of a crime in another country.