Immigration Acrobatics

From 2001 to 2006, Kristo Ivanov helped about 870 people fraudulently sneak into the United States. His scam? Preparing visa applications for them saying they were circus performers. Ivanov, who came to the country in 1980 as an acrobat for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and who is now a naturalized citizen, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison for inducing aliens to enter the United States illegally and making false statements in visa applications.