The Region - News from May 21, 1986

A former Immigration and Naturalization Service examiner who resigned her government job after she was indicted last month pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to charges of accepting money to illegally approve ineligible aliens for naturalization. In a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, Betty Alvarez, 40, agreed to testify for the government in the trial of Georgia Terrell, 41, a former INS employee who also was indicted. Two others, Evelyn Clark and Marietta Jones, both former INS employees in the Los Angeles office, were also named in a separate indictment. Alvarez faces a possible sentence of five years in prison and a $15,000 fine.