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Charleroi staffing agency owner pleads guilty to harboring illegal aliens for profit [PA]
WTAE ^ | 2/24/25 | Caitlyn Scott

Posted on 02/25/2025 2:44:41 PM PST by CFW

CHARLEROI, Pa. — The owner of a Charleroi staffing agency pleaded guilty Monday to multiple charges after officials said he harbored illegal aliens for financial gain.

In a release from the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western Pennsylvania District's office, 28-year-old Andy Ha pleaded guilty after officials said he harbored illegal aliens for financial gain and failed to pay more than $3 million in employment taxes.

From Sept. 2022 to April 2024, the release said, Ha owned a temporary staffing agency called Prosperity Services Inc. The agency provided workers to companies in the Charleroi, Pennsylvania area.

As part of the business, the staffing agency owner paid for more than 25 workers who were not legally authorized to work in the United States, the release said. He paid the workers to stay in a former hotel and paid for business vans to take them to and from work.

Ha also provided Prosperity’s tax return preparer with spreadsheets listing only workers who were legally authorized to be and work in the United States.

"That information, in turn, was reflected on the company’s quarterly employment tax returns, representing less than 10% of the actual total number of workers employed by Prosperity," the release stated. "Ha then also signed those returns, knowing them to be false and causing a tax loss of at least $3.1 million."

(Excerpt) Read more at wtae.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: andyha; fraud; illegalaliens; pa; prosperityservices; staffingagencies
Once again, something we had suspected was going on but the media (and Democrats) denied.

Remember when the "eating the dogs and cats" outrage was going on and a former WSJ went to Ohio and found an employment agency or landlord that was doing something similar? I bet it is happening in every mid-sized to large city nationwide.

1 posted on 02/25/2025 2:44:41 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Human trafficking should carry a death sentence.


2 posted on 02/25/2025 3:03:59 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: CFW

I bet you it is going on in EVERY city small or large till they get prosecuted. Start arresting folks and make it front page news and this will stop.


3 posted on 02/25/2025 3:05:34 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: CFW

Now we’re getting somewhere - I’m pretty sure these employment agencies employ workers that clean offices.


4 posted on 02/25/2025 3:23:59 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: CFW

Charleroi, PA was big in the news last October for all the Haitian immigrants changing the town for the worse.


5 posted on 02/25/2025 3:42:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

I had a granddaughter who lived in next-door Monessen about 12 years ago. I find it hard to believe that Charleroi could have possibly changed “for the worse!”


6 posted on 02/25/2025 5:03:35 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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Read about the Haitian immigrant invasion of Charleroi and decide for yourself. The locals don’t have much good to say about it.


7 posted on 02/25/2025 6:36:05 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

Thanks! I will look into it, BUT...
Just sayin’, Charleroi was a schiff-hole then. If it’s taken a turn for the worse, the mind boggles!


8 posted on 02/25/2025 6:51:42 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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