Posted on 10/04/2017 8:27:42 AM PDT by 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.
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You are not messenger, you're an a$$hole.
I reported you. There is no excuse for personal attacks. People like you ruin civil discourse on FR.
People that insult Americans in a general sense like you did insult everyone and reflect poorly on Free Republic. “Jobs Americans wont do” is bull crap. That is Bush/Rove RINO globalist propaganda. So f*** you very much.
PS: “Jobs Americans won’t do” IS a personal attack because it insults all Americans.
http://www.breitbart.com/economics/2017/03/29/homebuilders-complain-about-jobs-americans-wont-do/
Here is my take on this subject:
For so many decades illegals have been used, making low wages and many paying no taxes, that the entire market has been corrupted. The pay is now so low that kids just out of high school, who would have taken these jobs, are now kept out because the pay is so low. Unlike the illegals they have to pay all taxes and also do not qualify for free government money/assistance. They can't make any type of living.
I call foul on this. I had documents I knew were fraudulent. How many of you have seen a multi colored social security card. When I denied these documents I got in huge trouble with government officials berating me for not being a documents expert. True, I am not, but some things are obvious.
What’s funny is if and when the illegals are dismissed from employment with this company, they will be able to collect unemployment benefits and benefits from what ever they paid into social security. I have have seen it often. You can have your unemployment check mailed to Mexico, NO KIDDING!
The owner told me that since Trump won the election, his business has gone through the roof and if he could hire more qualified, legal, workers he could double his business.
God Bless America {and President Trump}, I love that man and his whole family... well I kinda like Jared.
Social Support Network should be for American Citizens only. SCREW SCOTUS.
Yeah. But we elected Trump to try to change that equation.
The Courtly Mistah Sessions better figure that out damn fast or it'll be one more nail in his political coffin.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
That’s a start.
“Im gonna go out on a limb and say the governments bark is worse than its bite.
Theyll trim this fine down to the stump on appeal.
Theyll leave the illegals alone for a while, then after the sawdust settles, theyll be right back chipper and sharp as an axe.....................”
Pithy comments, those. But don’t be a sap.
I’m knot!.....................
I must concede that I’m not on your plane. You’re running rings around me, while I’m just lumbering along.
They have contracts with electric utilities to trim trees all over the northeast. Last year they trimmed all the trees on every road in the town I live in NH. Think of how many hundreds of miles roads there are in just one town in a state like NH that is 80% forested.
It is similar to a guy I knew in western NY whose company had contacts to paint lines on the road. He owned a water front estate on Lake Erie.
Sure seems we can put this under the category of ‘Winning’.
JoMa
I don’t beat around the bush..................
Nope, not tired of winning yet...
My guess it they will likely be bankrupt and out of business or operating under a new name within 12 months
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