Posted on 04/30/2008 10:34:39 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
NORFOLK - The vice president of a Newport News fishing company was sentenced today to 90 days in prison on top of nearly $7 million in fines and forfeitures that she and her company have agreed to pay to settle charges that the company employed illegal immigrants on its vessels.
Yvonne Michelle Peabody, who runs the day-to-day operations of the Peabody Corp., previously pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges and has cooperated with the government in several other criminal matters, including a drug case, a prosecutor said.
U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson also sentenced her to 120 days of home detention with electronic monitoring after her release from custody and ordered her to pay a $50,000 fine.
Her father and company founder, William F. Peabody, who is semi-retired, was sentenced as well today, but Jackson spared him jail time as he had a relatively minor role in the crimes. He was sentenced to 150 days of home confinement, three years of probation and a $100,000 fine.
The company agreed to pay $6.75 million in fines and forfeitures, which represents the profits earned over a four-year period while employing more than 125 illegal immigrants to work their fishing vessels.
The jail sentence is a nice little kicker but fines of this magnitude is what we really need to see more of. Hammer the employers and let the illegals self-deport.
AMEN to this judge!
90 days isn’t long enough.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
The state should revoke their business license, prohibit her from ever doing business in that state again and seize all their business property.
Now this is the way to deal with the criminal conspiracy of using illegal aliens to suppress wages.
Enormous fines and prison time for the business owners.
I like it.
Finally now we are seeing some enforcement. Where were judges like this a few years ago?
This kind of hammer buy a lot of attention, I can see the chamber of commerce sending out it's email allerts already.
“The state should revoke their business license, prohibit her from ever doing business in that state again and seize all their business property.”
They should also give her leniency for ratting on other businesses in the state who hire illegal aliens.
I could go along with that if your threw in a public flogging.
“Enormous fines and prison time for the business owners.”
Its a start, now what about the politicians who have been looking the other way.
If it were up to me, they would face the same. However their position and money tends to shield them for the most part.
I have no problems with prison time for anyone and everyone involved in facilitating the ongoing criminal alien conspiracy.
It's not just the politicians looking the other way:
Man charged with selling license plates to illegal immigrants
The FBI has been investigating Felipe Perez, as he is known, for more than a year and a half, and following reports in The Virginian-Pilot in October 2005 of a swell of car crashes, some fatal, involving unlicensed, undocumented Hispanics driving cars with Tennessee plates.
Yea - a judge with cojones!!
90 days is over in 90 days, but that money is gone forever. This will do a lot to making employers think twice. Finally, some ramifications for the perps, not just the victims.
I agree!
I caught that too. How could it possibly take a year and a half to investigate this?
Authorities have known about this dude for nearly 5 years........
The license plate bust yesterday occurred real close to where I spent most of my day yesterday and I never heard a word about it. Even though I was on the phone with a whole bunch of people at various times through out the day.
The illegal problem around here is really bad, but no one seems to do anything about it.
This should be the norm. Enforce the laws we have.
I can’t make a decision without seeing her picture.
Oh wait.... This isn’t one of those kinds of threads.
Never mind.
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