Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - New York State's top prosecutor is investigating the company that brought migrants to New York as part of the national immigration crisis being played out.
Some of those migrants chose a path to Erie County, and are claiming they were deceived about employment. Others say they were threatened.
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Attorney General Letitia James is investigating claims from migrants that DocGo, the company hired to manage the influx of migrants from New York City, gave inaccurate information to migrants about employment opportunities, made “explicit or implicit threats,” and took “other actions that may jeopardize migrants’ ability to obtain asylum,” according to a New York Times report.
Attorney Paul Cambria says the obvious thing when you hear words like misinformation is some sort of fraud. "If misinformation leads to some problem, then somebody is going to say, you misled me, and you misled me to my detriment. And you know, now we need a remedy. So that's what that says to me what the details are," notes Cambria.
Cambria says usually anything that's either statewide or county to county, is when we see the Attorney General involved as opposed to local authorities. "It depends on what theory they're going on, to decide whether they actually had the power to do it," says Cambria.
How could this affect migrants in Erie County? Cambria says there are different aspects of government agencies involved in this. "The question is, is there a clear path here to a clear goal, and I'm not sure at this point that any of us can tell," notes Cambria.
Some 500 migrants came to Erie County earlier this year.