Archives of Employer Sanctions 2010

March 2013

• December 2010 — The owner of a sandwich shop in the Dallas suburb of Rockwell pled guilty to employing illegal aliens from 1997 to 2008. She was sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $18,000. (Associated Press, December 15, 2010)
• December 2010 — The owner of several Dunkin’ Donuts outlets in Portland, Maine pled guilty to engaging in a pattern or practice of hiring illegal immigrants (18 aliens) between 2001 and 2009 and lying on an immigration document. He faces a maximum prison term of 5 years on the falsifying charge and 6 months on the hiring charge. (Maine Public Broadcasting Network, December 14, 2010)
• December, 2010 — Christine Huang, the manager of China Buffet Mongolian Grill in Poplar Bluff, Missouri pled guilty to harboring, transporting, and employing illegal aliens from Mexico and China, as well as conspiracy to commit visa fraud by trying to arrange marriage for one illegal alien to secure a visa. She obtained fake IDs for some of her employees. (KAIT-TV, December 12, 2010)
• November 2010 — Bao Ping Wang and Trang “Tammy” Lu, owners of Hi-Tech Trucking, Inc. in Richmond Virginia, were sentenced to 18 months in prison for employing and harboring illegal aliens and were fined $1.2 million. (ICE news release, November 23, 2010)
• November 2010 — Jesse Fadick, the owner of the S & S Bakery in San Diego pled guilty to knowingly hiring illegal alien workers. Under a plea agreement, Fadick will serve 5 years of probation and forfeit $800,000. The plea resulted from a year-long investigation by ICE and DHS Investigations and the arrest of 45 illegal immigrants in October.
• November 2010 — Phung Ca Long, the owner of a restaurant in Cedar River, Iowa was convicted of “harboring illegal aliens for commercial gain,” i.e. employing them, and faces up to 15 years imprisonment. She also pled guilty to false Medicaid statements. 
• August 2010 — Ann Cox, a former FBI agent, agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of employing six illegal immigrants during periods from 1997 to 2008 at a deli in Rockwall, Texas she owned. The charges against Cox can carry six months in prison and a $3,000 fine for each illegal hiring, but, if the judge accepts Cox’s plea agreement, she could receive five years’ probation. (Dallas Morning News, August 20, 2010) 
• May 2010 — Robert Lane Camp, a landscape business owner was sentenced to three months in prison and an additional three months of house arrest for harboring an illegal immigrant. He told the federal judge that thought it was just a civil violation that he employed the worker, who he knew was illegally present. The illegal employment came to light because the alien, who had previously been deported, murdered a Houston police officer following his arrest. (Houston Chronicle, May 10, 2010).
• April 2010 — Larry Gunsorek, president and founding partner of Anchor Management Group in central Ohio pled guilty to allowing undocumented workers to do renovation, construction, landscaping and maintenance work at properties his company managed. He was sentenced to two years’ probation including six months of in-home confinement and fined $2,000. (Columbus Dispatch, April 16, 2010).
• March 2010 — Juan Nuno-Ramirez, the owner of three Guadalajara Restaurants in Billings, MT pled guilty to helping illegal aliens obtain fraudulent immigration documents and knowingly hiring them. One of the illegal aliens was his sister. (The Great Falls Tribune, March 16, 2010).
• March 2010 — The owner of a Danny’s Subway sandwich shop in Phoenix is the first firm sanctioned under the state’s law against knowingly employing an illegal alien. The shop is required to suspend operations for two days for a first offense. The penalty arose after federal immigration authorities found that the owner had re-employed an illegal alien worker after firing the worker when informed by the federal authorities the worker was illegal. The owner of the franchise was fined $431 by the federal government. (The Arizona Republic, March 10, 2010).
• March 2010 — Ramon Ornelas, the owner of eight Casa Fiesta Mexican restaurants across northern Ohio pled guilty last month to harboring illegal immigrants and filing false tax returns. He faces a sentence of at least one year in prison. Ornelas had been involved in a previous case a decade earlier of hiring illegal alien workers. In a raid of the restaurants, 64 illegal aliens were detained, and about 55 have already been deported. Some workers said they worked 12-hour days, six days a week and were paid $500 to $600 in cash every two weeks, i.e. about $3.50 to $4 an hour. (The Plain Dealer, March 8, 2010) 
• February 2010 — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced an agreement with Koch Food Inc. in which the firm agreed to pay a fine of more than $536,000 stemming from a 2007 raid at its plant in Southwest Ohio in which 161 illegal alien workers were apprehended. (Associated Press, February 12, 2010)