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| Company used illegal aliens to make MREs |
| 2005-10-28 |
| A Texas employment agency was sentenced to five years of probation for hiring illegal immigrants to work at the nation's top producer of military battlefield rations, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The Tollin Group was also fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $414,000 in civil penalties Wednesday. It has been barred from Department of Defense contracts for three years. The San Antonio-based company, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, pleaded guilty in January to hiring illegal immigrants and trying to cover it up by falsifying employment eligibility forms. The workers were hired for Wornick Co., which makes MREs — or "meals The investigation was initiated in February 2003 after an al-Qaida operative was arrested with information pointing to McAllen and Wornick as terrorist targets. Wornick had been awarded a $47 million contract to produce more than 1.1 million MREs for U.S. forces in Iraq. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force ran background checks on Wornick employees and found hundreds of temporary employees with fraudulent documentation. No direct link to terrorism was found. At least they didn't subcontract out to China or Iran. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #2 Damn stright! What is something 'extra' had been added to the MRE's? Send the CEO, CFO, and COO of The Tollin Group and Remedy Intelligent Staffing to 10 years in pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Oh and strip their bank accounts, take their homes/cars/property too! We can't play footie with shit like this. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-10-28 23:58 |
| #1 Probation? Time in the slammer for the top execs would've been a more fitting penalty. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-28 22:05 |