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Houston, Texas -- abc13 Undercover reporter Wayne Dolcefino has been digging into Republic Waste for months, first exposing dozens of illegal immigrants working there.
After today's immigration raid, city hall says it is investigating Republic's Houston office. City contractors have to abide with all state and federal laws, but the city does big business with the company and they knew a long time ago that some Republic employees had used phony Social Security numbers because we told them.
The big dawn immigration raid on Wilson Road is just the latest chapter in a city garbage scandal we first uncovered back in 2005.
Back then, we were on the hunt for possible fraud in Republic's Houston contract and we found it -- evidence the company was making Houstonians pay to dispose of garbage that wasn't ours in the first place.
The company would eventually repay taxpayers $2 million, but along the trail of trash, we found evidence of Social Security and immigration fraud at Republic.
Posted by tyne at February 1, 2007