By 2010, Svetlana Pogosyan and Dmitry Fomichev had been married for four years when agents with the Internal Revenue Service began asking questions about the couple.

Pogosyan, meeting with federal agents at a coffee shop, gave conflicting answers about where the two lived and about their tax returns. After being told it was a crime to lie to federal agents, Pogosyan said she wanted to “come clean”: She had agreed to marry her Russian husband, she said, according to court records, to help him secure U.S. citizenship.

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