Yolanda Henandez de Arteaga, a
restaurant in a la Vernia, outside San Antonio has been charged in federal
court with wire fraud for stealing the wages of sixty undocumented restaurant
workers, including a dozen of her own family members, by promising them
official immigration paperwork. In all,
she got $89,600 from the workers.
That’s pretty low. Apparently she thought they wouldn’t complain
to authorities because they’re undocumented.
She was wrong. The FBI found
corroborating records at Western Union and Money Gram and her own restaurant
verified the workers’ claims, with a ledgerof the names of he victims, the
amounts they owed, and the birth certificates and travel documents of the
victims.
Stealing from the weak is low.
Stealing from your family is lower. Running an elaborate hoax on the promise of
a better life your own poor, hardworking, undocumented workers by stealing their
paychecks is close to modern day peonage.
She’s facing 30 years in prison
for wire fraud. I hope she gets all of
it.
Story credit www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Restaurant-owner-accused-of-duping-employees-out-5017972.php
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