Contractor faces 20 years in prison for forced labor
he U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of California this month convicted the owner of several construction companies on charges of forced labor and harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage or private financial gain, according to a press release from the office.
Prosecutors charged Job Torres Hernandez of Hayward, California, with using his construction businesses to recruit undocumented workers from Mexico and then refuse to pay them. If they complained, he threatened them — and their families — with violence or with deportation. The trial also indicated that Torres held the workers captive in squalid living conditions and required them to work as long as 24 hours at a time.
Torres is in custody pending a June 2019 sentencing hearing at which he will face up to 20 years in prison and fines of $500,000, in addition to possible forfeitures and restitution.
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