The Washington Times
Two California fence company executives who pleaded guilty to hiring illegal aliens face prison terms at sentencing in March in what could establish a new benchmark in the government's claimed crackdown on illegal immigration.
Mel Kay, founder, chairman and president of Golden State Fence Co., and Michael McLaughlin, manager of the company's Oceanside, Calif., office, pleaded guilty this month in U.S. District Court in San Diego to felony charges of hiring the illegals and agreed to pay fines of $200,000 and $100,000, respectively.
The company, which built more than a mile of a 15-foot-high fence near the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego to protect against illegal immigration, agreed separately to pay $5 million on a misdemeanor count -- one of the largest ever imposed on an employer for immigration violations.
Posted by tyne at December 22, 2006