A national tree services company will have to pay a a record fine after admitting that it engaged in a scheme to hire illegal aliens, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Asplundh Tree Expert Co., a suburban Philadelphia-based contractor that trims and removes trees around power lines, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal criminal charge and was ordered to pay a total of $95 million, the biggest penalty ever levied in an immigration case.
Federal Judge John R. Padova ordered the company to pay a criminal forfeiture judgment of $80 million, plus a $15 million civil penalty to satisfy additional civil claims for failure to follow immigration law.
Asplundh hired thousands of unauthorized workers between 2010 and 2014, using knowingly fraudulent identification documents, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia. Prosecutors said the company’s upper management was “willfully blind,” while mid-level regional supervisors knowingly violated immigration law and hired illegal aliens.
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Where's the money go? Not where it can help the people who didn't get hired because illegals took their jobs, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteGood. Pursue all violators!
ReplyDeleteWhy not put the hireling manager into prison too ?
ReplyDeleteA few weeks being Bubba's girlfriend will straighten him out!
I had a problem with them cutting in an area that should not have been cut over only to find out that I could not find them by phone or by mail. Good gig if you can get it.
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ReplyDelete10:48
You need to contact the power company, they are the ones
who hold the right to order the trimming of trees along
their right-of-way, not the contractor.