Posted on 04/27/2011 2:56:08 PM PDT by posterchild
An Ellisville, Mo., man who provided business know-how to a Kansas City-based labor trafficking scheme was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.
Jurors found Kristin Dougherty, 50, guilty in October of racketeering, conspiracy and wire fraud for his role in a scheme that brought more than 1,000 foreign workers into the United States on temporary employment visas.
The enterprise then abused some of those workers by paying them less than they had been promised and housing them in substandard conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Research the eastern European country of Moldova and find where the epicenter of human trafficking is located. Most people cannot find it on a map. (Between Romania on the west and Ukraine on the east.)
And the ONE THOUSAND other CRIMINALS in this bust, who came here illegally by paying off a human trafficking gang to avoid detection by U.S. Border Patrol don't get prosecuted? The article merely refers to them as "workers". These folks willfully helped fund a human trafficking operation, and worse yet, intended to personally gain financially from this criminal enterprise, while subverting U.S. Immigration laws. Most of these criminal aliens then steal social security numbers and defraud U.S. citizens' credit cards. And Americans are supposed to feel sorry for them, and refer to them as innocent "workers"?
I’m always amazed at the failure of journalists to ask basic questions such as; “what efforts are being made to locate the people who were ‘trafficked?’”
I know Moldova, seem to be where all the young hookers are from working the streets in Italy. Not to mention I stopped in to have lunch in a restaurant in north Atlanta a few years back and the only person working there, not from Moldova, was the black lady running the cash register.
There are young Moldovan kids working in Gulf Shores, AL also....lots of them. It breaks my heart to see what people do to other people for money. My wife has done two mission trips to orphanages in Moldova. Our poorest here would be filthy rich there.
Ping!
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