May 9, 2008 11:12 am US/Eastern
Car Wash Investigated For Identity Theft
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ―
A car
wash franchisee and five Philadelphia
area executives are under federal grand jury indictment for allegedly harboring
illegal immigrants and committing identity theft.
U.S.
attorney Pat Meehan says that from 2000 through 2006, the five Car Care
managers hired illegal immigrants at minimum wage and maintained a file of
phony I-9 employee verification forms.
Meehan says the managers provided the illegal
immigrants with the names and Social Security numbers of former workers,
submitted hours worked to payroll departments in the name of former employees,
and reported their earnings to the IRS and state governments.
At one car wash, Meehan says, up to 90 percent
of the defendant's work force were illegal immigrants.
Fifty-seven people were arrested, and 14 were
deported.
Information from: KYW-AM, http://www.kyw1060.com
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