Hiring illegal immigrants brings a fine, probation

[Omaha Steve]

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COUNCIL BLUFFS — The owner of a chain of thrift stores has been ordered to serve three years of probation for hiring il­legal immigrants.
Daryl Leise, 40, pleaded guilty to reckless disregard in the hiring of undocumented im­migrants who worked for his company, American Clothing Co., 3211 Nebraska Ave., U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker announced Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge James E. Gritzner fined Leise $50,100, in addition to the probation sen­tence.
On April 3, 2008, Immigra­tion and Customs Enforcement officers executed a search war­rant at American Clothing Co., where they seized employment records. Some workers also were taken into custody.
A federal investigation found that some American Clothing Co. employees were using So­cial Security numbers that were in use by others in the United States. Two workers were using the Social Security numbers of people who had died.
The company gathers do­nated clothes from collection boxes around the metropolitan area, many of which were la­beled as Veterans of Foreign Wars boxes. Investigators said undocumented workers sorted donations for resale.
The clothes were sold at the company’s five metro-area Thrift World stores or sent to Guatemala or Honduras, docu­ments indicate.

[fasttense]

1. So when do they put the CEO of Tyson on probation for hiring illegally?n/t

[sybylla]

2. Fine question, that.

Seems it's always the little guy that pays. And he should.