Breaking News: Illegal Mexicans flock to temp agencies
Indictment says illegal workers were supplied to local employers
Thursday, April 13, 2006
CLEVELAND - Two temporary employment agencies with Canton offices and nine of their employees are accused in federal charges of sending illegal immigrants with false documentation to Ohio businesses seeking temporary workers, while scamming millions of dollars in fees from those businesses. (NO WAY!)
Among the businesses that used the illegal workers is Case Foods of Winesburg in Holmes County, according to a federal indictment. That company is said to have paid more than $2 million for their labor in 2000 and 2001.
The case illustrates the government’s effort to link money laundering to job agencies that illegally supply illegal alien workers, Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency in Washington, D.C., said Wednesday.
The federal indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland on Tuesday. Federal agents arrested three people in Philadelphia, one in New York City and another in Columbus. Three people were being sought. Another was expected to voluntarily surrender.
The government accused the agencies, identified as HV Connect and TN Job Service, of a $5.3 million money laundering scheme. The agencies would place workers they said had U.S. work authorization and promise to pay payroll taxes and workers’ compensation premiums from fees paid by the employers, the indictment said.
The government accuses the agency workers of using the money instead to build a home, buy jewelry and liquor, and spend money at casinos. The undocumented workers were paid in cash.
The government said HV Connect has operated in Philadelphia and Canton and TN Job Service operated in Philadelphia, Pennsauken, N.J., Canton and New Philadelphia. There was no telephone listing in any of those cities for the two businesses.
According to the indictment, the operators of HV Connect and several similarly named operations were: Hon Vuong, Trung Q. Nguyen, An Quoc Nguyen and Mshenga Abdy Nasseb.
The Nguyens, Nasseb and Tai Van Nguyen ran TN Job Service, federal prosecutors say.
Dale Gherky, human resources director of Case Farms, which is part of Case Foods, said his company has never done business with HV Connect or TN Job Service in the 13 years he has worked there.
But federal prosecutors allege that on Sept. 27, 2001, HV Connect had at least 17 illegal aliens assigned to work at Case Foods.
The indictment also claims Case paid the defendants and their companies roughly $2.3 million in 2001 and 2002, far more than any other business mentioned.
According to the indictment, other area companies supplied alien labor by HV Connect or TN Job Service include:
L&W Egg in Millersburg; Custom Design Technologies/Nexxste of Canton; Renewable Energy Products of Canton; Gerber’s Poultry of Kidron; International Packaging Specialties of Millersburg; Waste Parchment of Millersburg; Cicchini/Avanti Corp. of Canton; Amish Door Inc. of Wilmot and Biery Cheese of Nimishillen Township. (LOL)
Amish Door Inc. President Joe Miller said his company was told the workers they received were legal. Amish Door tries to abide by all laws and has never again used outside hires, he said.
Investigators began scrutinizing the staffing companies after two men with former ties to Canton — Karim Koubriti and Ahmed Hannan — were charged in Detroit on allegations they operated a terrorism cell. Their arrests made national headlines as the first terrorism trial after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
CLEVELAND - Two temporary employment agencies with Canton offices and nine of their employees are accused in federal charges of sending illegal immigrants with false documentation to Ohio businesses seeking temporary workers, while scamming millions of dollars in fees from those businesses. (NO WAY!)
Among the businesses that used the illegal workers is Case Foods of Winesburg in Holmes County, according to a federal indictment. That company is said to have paid more than $2 million for their labor in 2000 and 2001.
The case illustrates the government’s effort to link money laundering to job agencies that illegally supply illegal alien workers, Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency in Washington, D.C., said Wednesday.
The federal indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland on Tuesday. Federal agents arrested three people in Philadelphia, one in New York City and another in Columbus. Three people were being sought. Another was expected to voluntarily surrender.
The government accused the agencies, identified as HV Connect and TN Job Service, of a $5.3 million money laundering scheme. The agencies would place workers they said had U.S. work authorization and promise to pay payroll taxes and workers’ compensation premiums from fees paid by the employers, the indictment said.
The government accuses the agency workers of using the money instead to build a home, buy jewelry and liquor, and spend money at casinos. The undocumented workers were paid in cash.
The government said HV Connect has operated in Philadelphia and Canton and TN Job Service operated in Philadelphia, Pennsauken, N.J., Canton and New Philadelphia. There was no telephone listing in any of those cities for the two businesses.
According to the indictment, the operators of HV Connect and several similarly named operations were: Hon Vuong, Trung Q. Nguyen, An Quoc Nguyen and Mshenga Abdy Nasseb.
The Nguyens, Nasseb and Tai Van Nguyen ran TN Job Service, federal prosecutors say.
Dale Gherky, human resources director of Case Farms, which is part of Case Foods, said his company has never done business with HV Connect or TN Job Service in the 13 years he has worked there.
But federal prosecutors allege that on Sept. 27, 2001, HV Connect had at least 17 illegal aliens assigned to work at Case Foods.
The indictment also claims Case paid the defendants and their companies roughly $2.3 million in 2001 and 2002, far more than any other business mentioned.
According to the indictment, other area companies supplied alien labor by HV Connect or TN Job Service include:
L&W Egg in Millersburg; Custom Design Technologies/Nexxste of Canton; Renewable Energy Products of Canton; Gerber’s Poultry of Kidron; International Packaging Specialties of Millersburg; Waste Parchment of Millersburg; Cicchini/Avanti Corp. of Canton; Amish Door Inc. of Wilmot and Biery Cheese of Nimishillen Township. (LOL)
Amish Door Inc. President Joe Miller said his company was told the workers they received were legal. Amish Door tries to abide by all laws and has never again used outside hires, he said.
Investigators began scrutinizing the staffing companies after two men with former ties to Canton — Karim Koubriti and Ahmed Hannan — were charged in Detroit on allegations they operated a terrorism cell. Their arrests made national headlines as the first terrorism trial after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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