Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") announced this week that a Boulder resident was convicted of one count of harboring illegal aliens and one count of failure to pay taxes. The man, who pleaded guilty in Federal District Court, was a citizen of Thailand who is in the United States on an E-2 investor visa.
According to the plea agreement, from 2001 the man would sponsor Thai nationals to come work in his three Boulder area restaurants. He would then force them to pay him exorbitant fees to pay him back for his bringing them here, work them overtime without reporting such work to the IRS, and attempt to charge them $18,000 if they violated any term of his "contract" or caused him any damage. He faces up to ten years imprisonment and up to a $250,000 fine for the harboring conviction and up to five years imprisonment and up to a $250,000 fine for the failure to pay taxes conviction.
To read ICE's news release on the matter, click here.
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