Are labor brokers racketeers?

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Q: Are labor brokers racketeers?

Organized, sophisticated, complex mass national worker relocations

	$1 million overtime bilked from workers
	No tax or workers' compensation payments
	Harboring illegal aliens
	Conspiracy to commit fraud across state lines
	Fraudulent deductions from workers' wages
	Operated under 20+ different names

One broker, 54 charges under racketeering law

Texas-based

Brothers' Construction II

The Denver Post

Labor brokers cut costs, corners
Fast-growing firms exploit immigrants to feed construction industry
February 16, 2003

"...In a case last year that federal investigators hoped would send a signal to the industry, a Texas- based broker was indicted on 54 charges, including harboring illegal aliens and tax evasion. In a December plea bargain, the company president agreed to serve four years in federal prison. Under racketeering laws usually reserved for drug cases, the company will forfeit $10 million in assets. A separate Labor Department case that accuses the broker of bilking workers out of nearly $1 million in overtime is pending."

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