She also earned extra money selling untraceable driver licenses to illegal alien Moslem terrorists who probably killed her.
There's a much bigger market for that sort of thing among the Memphis community of illegal entrants from Mexico. And the Tyson organized crime family now under investigation for those activities has also been under investigation for narcotics trafficking as well.
But apparantly, Rev L.F. Self knew all about that: *...but there is no mystery of how she lived.*
20 December 2001
Tyson Foods indicted for smuggling illegal aliens
Washington, D.C. - Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest producer, processor, and marketer of poultry-based food products, has been hit with a 36-count indictment by an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice on charges it conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to work in its processing plants.
Michael Chertoff, assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, said a federal grand jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., returned the indictment against executives and managers of Tyson Foods for conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens to Tyson Foods processing facilities in the United States for profit.
In addition to charging Tyson Foods Inc., the indictment includes two corporate executives, Robert Hash, vice-president, Retail Fresh Division and Gerald Lankford, former human resources manager, Retail Fresh. Also indicted are four former managers Keith Snyder, complex manager, Noel, Missouri; Truley Ponder, former complex manager, Shelbyville, Tenn.; Spencer Mabe, former plant manager, Shelbyville, Tenn.; and Jimmy Rowland, former complex personnel manager, Shelbyville, Tenn.
"The Department of Justice is committed to vigorously investigating and prosecuting companies or individuals who exploit immigrants and violate our nation's immigration laws," said Chertoff. "The bottom line on the corporate balance sheet is no excuse for criminal conduct."
Chertoff said the 36-count indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the result of a two-and-one-half year undercover investigation conducted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into the business practices of Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods executives and managers are accused in the indictment of conspiring to import and transport illegal alien workers from the Southwest border to Tyson plants throughout the U.S. Fifteen Tyson Foods plants in nine states have been implicated in this conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
"This case represents the first time INS has taken action against a company of Tyson's magnitude," said INS Commissioner James Ziglar. "INS means business and companies, regardless of size, are on notice that INS is committed to enforcing compliance with immigration laws and protecting America's workforce."
According to the indictment, Tyson Foods cultivated a corporate culture in which the hiring of illegal alien workers was condoned in order to meet production goals and cut costs to maximize profits. The indictment describes a scheme by which the defendants requested delivery of illegal aliens to work at Tyson plants in the United States and aided and abetted them in obtaining false documents so they could work at Tyson poultry processing plants "under the false pretense of being legally employable."
Ziglar said the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor, the Social Security Administration, the Bedford County Tennessee Sheriff's Department, the Shelbyville Tennessee Police Department and the Tennessee Highway Patrol all participated in this INS investigation.
Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., disputed the government accusations that a corporate conspiracy took place. Ken Kimbro, senior vice president of human resources, issued a statement saying "the prosecutor's claim in this indictment of a corporate conspiracy is absolutely false. In reality, the specific charges are limited to a few managers who were acting outside of company policy at five of our 57 poultry processing plants," he said.
"As a result of an internal investigation several months ago, four managers named in the indictment were terminated, and two others are now on administrative leave, pending the outcome of this matter," Kimbro said.