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  • Company admits providing illegal workers (Military MRE plant)

    01/05/2005 4:20:58 PM PST · by 4.1O dana super trac pak · 23 replies · 700+ views
    An employment agency pleaded guilty to falsifying forms to get illegal immigrants jobs at the nation's top producer of U.S. military battlefield rations.James Echensberger, vice president of San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., on Tuesday pleaded guilty on the company's behalf to one count of conspiracy to provide false and fictitious statements during an FBI investigation.Investigators found that Tollin, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, was trying to cover up hundreds of fraudulent "I-9" employment eligibility documents. The illegal workers were hired by Wornick Co., which packages high-calorie "meals ready to eat" for troops in Iraq.The FBI initiated the investigation...
  • Likely illegal immigrants found working at defense contractor

    09/30/2004 8:28:34 PM PDT · by Dubya · 24 replies · 891+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Sept. 30, 2004 | LYNN BREZOSKY
    BROWNSVILLE -- Federal authorities have taken 41 suspected illegal immigrants into custody after they were found working at a Department of Defense contractor at the Port of Brownsville. Luisa Aquino, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said today that the Wednesday raid came after an investigation found AMFELS Inc.'s subcontractors were hiring undocumented workers. She said AMFELS was not part of the investigation and had alerted federal officials to false Social Security numbers. U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby was expected to provide more details of the investigation Thursday afternoon in McAllen. "These companies were hiring undocumented aliens and providing...
  • Company official's not-guilty plea stemmed from al-Qaida probe

    09/30/2004 4:12:45 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 4 replies · 452+ views
    Rio Grande Valley Bureau ^ | 09/30/2004 | Mariano Castillo
    McALLEN — The vice president of a temporary employment agency pleaded not guilty this afternoon to charges of falsifying work documents and lying to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force during an investigation into a potential al-Qaida plot here. James Eckensberger Jr., vice president of the San Antonio-Based Tollin Group, offered no comment after entering his plea in federal court. Just moments earlier, U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby held a news conference shedding some light on the investigation that began as a search for al-Qaida operatives but ultimately netted 10 undocumented workers without terror links. The Tollin Group operates in McAllen...
  • Al-Qaida Infiltrated U.S. Military Meal Company?

    10/04/2004 8:55:55 AM PDT · by esryle · 100 replies · 2,539+ views
    U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military. A high-ranking al-Qaida operative provided information leading authorities to nearly a dozen illegal immigrants working for the McAllen, Texas-based Wornick Co., the largest supplier of the meals, according to McAllen's The Monitor newspaper. The firm that places the workers at Wornick has been charged with conspiring to make and use false employment eligibility verification forms. U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby explained, "Immediately after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002, U.S. forces on...