{"id":51186,"date":"2022-10-27T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51186"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:04:00","slug":"three-defendants-sentenced-for-forced-labor-of-mexican-farmworkers-harvesting-crops-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51186","title":{"rendered":"Three Defendants Sentenced for Forced Labor of Mexican Farmworkers Harvesting Crops in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>FLORIDA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Three defendants were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized over a dozen Mexican workers who had worked legally in the U.S. harvesting fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products between 2015 and 2017, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">U.S. District Court Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell sentenced Christina Gamez, 43, to three years in prison; Efrain Cabrera Rodas, 32, a citizen of Mexico, to three years and five months in prison; and Guadalupe Mendes Mendoza, 45, to eight months of home detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51187 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"man in blue jacket wearing white helmet standing on green grass field during daytime\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/n8voxpmn6nw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Judge Honeywell also ordered Cabrera to pay nearly $25,000 and Gamez to pay over $9,000 in restitution to the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u201cThese defendants exploited their victims\u2019 vulnerabilities and immigration status, promising them access to the American dream but then turning around and confiscating their passports and threatening arrest and deportation if they did not endlessly toil away for their profit,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23585\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23585\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Immigration-VISA-e1463806995884.jpg 1465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA Visa document<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">According to court documents, the defendants each conspired to operate and manage Los Villatoros Harvesting LLC (LVH) \u2013\u00a0 a farm labor contracting company that brought large numbers of temporary, seasonal Mexican workers into the United States on H-2A agricultural visas \u2013 as a criminal enterprise engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The enterprise\u2019s racketeering activity included subjecting LVH\u2019s H-2A workers to forced labor, harboring many of LVH\u2019s H-2A workers for financial gain, committing fraud in foreign labor contracting, and submitting fraudulent visa-related documents to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50935\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50935\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"man in gray hoodie and blue denim jeans kneeling on green grass field during daytime\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-kx060crsmt0-unsplash-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@timmossholder\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Mossholder<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=american-justice-notebook&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Cabrera worked as a recruiter, manager and part-time supervisor for LVH. Cabrera successfully recruited approximately 40 workers to work for the criminal enterprise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">He charged them fees of between $1,000 to $2,000 prior to coming to the United States to work for LVH, lied to them by telling them that LVH would reimburse them after their arrival in the United States, and misrepresented how much money LVH would pay them for their harvesting work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Cabrera understood that the workers had gone into heavy debt to pay the fees he had charged them, and that he and his co-conspirators could use those debts to coerce the workers into continuing to work for LVH. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Cabrera also understood that co-conspirators in the enterprise confiscated workers\u2019 passports to discourage the workers from fleeing so that they would continue laboring for LVH. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Cabrera also threatened workers with arrest and deportation if they attempted to escape from the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Gamez worked as a bookkeeper, manager and supervisor for LVH. Gamez committed several overt acts in furtherance of the criminal enterprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50936\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50936\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tim-mossholder-zoiurv5fi-k-unsplash-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"person in gray hoodie holding green and brown carton\" width=\"311\" height=\"467\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@timmossholder\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Mossholder<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=american-justice-notebook&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">She confiscated the workers\u2019 passports and knowingly submitted fraudulent payroll documents to LVH\u2019s payroll company to make it possible for LVH to pay its workers only a very small fraction of the pay they were entitled to under their contracts for the many hours of physically demanding work they had done. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">She threatened workers with deportation if they did not continue to labor for LVH. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Later, to mislead Department of Labor employees, she falsified payroll records, prepared falsified reimbursement receipts, and distributed them to H-2A workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Mendes worked as a supervisor and manager for LVH. In order to conceal aspects of the criminal enterprise from investigators, Mendes made false statements to federal investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Earlier this year, the defendants pleaded guilty to their roles in the enterprise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Gamez and Cabrera each pleaded guilty to conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and Mendes pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The owner of LVH, co-defendant Bladimir Moreno, 55, also pleaded guilty last month to his role in the scheme and is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 28. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Moreno faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The court will determine his sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">As part of his plea agreement, Moreno has agreed to pay more than $173,000 in restitution to the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force, which includes the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Palm Beach County Sheriff\u2019s Office, investigated the case. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilyssa Spergel for the Middle District of Florida and Trial Attorneys Avner Shapiro, Maryam Zhuravitsky and Matthew Thiman of the Civil Rights Division\u2019s Criminal Section are prosecuting the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLORIDA Three defendants were 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