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October 3, 2012
Arkansas Man Sentenced in
Illegal Hiring Case
On September 26, 2012, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) announced that the owner of a staffing and labor contracting
company in Arkansas which employed undocumented individuals in Arkansas,
Mississippi and Kentucky after providing them with false employment
authorization and Social Security cards, was sentenced in federal court
to thirty months in federal prison based on his May 10, 2012 guilty plea
to the count of “harboring and shielding illegal aliens for financial
gain.” He was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and will have to
submit to two years of supervised release after completing his prison
sentence.
The investigation, which began in November of 2008,
was conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement authorities,
including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, who were able
to recover approximately $117,000 of the estimated $6.4 million in
profits that the individual obtained in connection with the scheme.
For
more information, visit the
ICE news release.
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