Eduviges del Carmen Zamora was in this country as a legal resident when she went to work selling memberships in a fake Indian tribe to illegal aliens in Wichita.
Zamora pleaded guilty this morning to having knowledge of a felony that she didn’t report to authorities. The felony in this case is mail fraud.
She worked as a secretary in the Wichita home office of the unrecognized Kaweah Indian tribe, one of the most fascinating cases to be going through the justice system here.
Prosecutors say illegal immigrants in nearly a dozen states spent some $200 each for memberships in the fake Kaweah Indian tribe with the hopes that it would give them the proper papers to stay in the country. Malcom Webber is charged as the leader under the alias of “Grand Chief Thunderbird the IV.” Trial is set for Webber, who was 69 when he was charged last September, and the other defendants later this year.