{"id":1069,"date":"2007-10-25T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2007-10-25T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:09:02","slug":"how-criminal-employers-juggle-the-bookssome-insight-here-dont-try-this-at-home-unless-you-donate-a-lot-of-money-to-political-campaigns-or-are-an-illegal-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/how-criminal-employers-juggle-the-bookssome-insight-here-dont-try-this-at-home-unless-you-donate-a-lot-of-money-to-political-campaigns-or-are-an-illegal-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"How criminal employers juggle the books&#8230;some insight here &#8211; don&#8217;t try this at home unless you donate a lot of money to political campaigns, or are an illegal alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawn company in Nebraska has pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants and manipulating their pay so that it didn&#8217;t have to report them.  How criminal employers juggle the books&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/071017\/ne_immigration_raid.html?.v=1\">some insight and the entire news story  here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the story below<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP<br \/>\nOwner Pleads Guilty in Immigration Bust<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday October 17, 1:42 pm ET<br \/>\nBy Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer<br \/>\n<strong>Lawn Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Harboring Illegal Immigrants <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) &#8212; A Grand Island lawn care company owner has pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants and manipulating financial transactions to avoid reporting them.<br \/>\nDavid Wortman turned himself in for arrest last month, one day after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler and arrested 19 suspected illegal immigrants. <\/p>\n<p>The criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Nebraska accused Wortman of knowingly hiring the illegal workers and paying them in cash to work for Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler.<\/p>\n<p>Wortman admitted Monday to hiring 26 workers without checking their identification or getting any proof they were eligible to work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of the workers were arrested in May after a traffic stop of a Cloudburst van, ICE spokesman Tim Counts said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawn company in Nebraska has pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants and manipulating their pay so that it didn&#8217;t have to report them. How criminal employers juggle the books&#8230;some insight and the entire news story here. Part of the story below AP Owner Pleads Guilty in Immigration Bust Wednesday October 17, 1:42 pm ET [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}