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\"\"A hotel manager in Georgia pleaded guilty last week to trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery and forced labor, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to court documents, Shreesh Tiwari, 70, an Indian national and legal U.S. permanent resident, began managing the Budgetel Motel in Cartersville, Georgia, in 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tiwari hired the victim to work as a house cleaner at the motel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sentencing is set for Sept. 6. Tiwari faces up to 20 years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before arriving at the Budgetel, Tiwari knew that the victim had experienced homelessness, struggled with heroin addiction, and lost custody of her young child. Tiwari promised the victim that he would help her regain custody of her child by providing her with pay, an apartment, and an attorney.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Instead of following through with his promises, Tiwari monitored the victim\u2019s interactions with motel guests and employees and forbade her from speaking to them. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tiwari also made numerous sexual overtures to the victim. <\/span><\/p>\n

When Tiwari became angry at the victim, he threatened to evict her from the room he offered her at the Budgetel, knowing that she would become homeless as a result. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tiwari also threatened to report the victim\u2019s drug use to law enforcement or child welfare agencies whenever he was angry at her. <\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Tiwari began regularly ” evicting\u201d the victim from her motel room, and even locked her out of her room at night without warning. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tiwari later required the victim to perform oral sex on him to stay at the motel. If she did not, Tiwari removed her from the property, causing her to be homeless.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHuman trafficking is an abhorrent crime in which traffickers specifically identify and target the most vulnerable members of our society, often using fraudulent promises to offer hope to someone in need,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of his plea agreement, Tiwari agreed to pay slightly over $40,000 in mandatory restitution to the victims of the offense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant Attorney General Clarke, U.S. Attorney Buchanan, and Acting Special Agent in Charge Pickard made the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations Dalton Office investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Leanne Marek and Annalise Peters for the Northern District of Georgia and Trial Attorney Kate Hill of the Justice Department\u2019s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit are prosecuting the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who has information about human trafficking should report that information to the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free at 1-888-373-7888, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about human trafficking, please visit\u00a0www.humantraffickinghotline.org<\/a>. Information on the Department of Justice\u2019s efforts to combat human trafficking can be found at www.justice.gov\/humantrafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hotel manager in Georgia pleaded guilty last week to trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery and forced labor, officials stated. According to court documents, Shreesh Tiwari, 70, an Indian national and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeland-security-investigations","category-u-s-department-of-justice"],"yoast_head":"\nSeventy-Year-Old Motel Manager Scheduled for Sentencing in September for Coercing Labor, Sex Acts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A hotel manager in Georgia pleaded guilty last week to trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery and forced labor, officials stated. 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