Tree Company Fined Whopping $95 Million for Hiring Illegal Immigrants

Lifezette ^ | October 3, 2017 | Margaret Menge

[Maceman]

The tree-trimming company Asplundh Tree Expert has been hit with a $95 million fine for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and for bringing on some under different names who used documents it knew were fraudulent.

It is the largest fine ever in an immigration case in the U.S.

Asplundh pleaded guilty to criminal charges in federal court in Pennsylvania, where it is headquartered, admitting that its managers restructured the company's hiring specifically to evade normal human resources processes and hire illegal aliens, many by word-of-mouth, while giving top-level managers deniability.

The $95 million fine includes forfeiture of up to $80 million in profits that the company earned as a result of its hiring of illegal aliens, plus a civil fine of $15 million.

The federal lawsuit brought against the company by the Department of Justice named manager Larry Gauger as plaintiff in addition to the company, saying he instructed managers working under him to hire people they knew were illegal aliens.

But what made things worse, and the fine no doubt much larger, was that the company, and Gauger, set up a system to hire illegal aliens after a government audit and in outright defiance of the government.

[Windflier]

I am really sorry our government sokd you and others out.

Thank you. I appreciate the understanding. Thing is, this scourge has now infected every service industry in the country.

The American people know it, which is why they elected Trump last November. I pray he's successful in his mission to send them all home.