Thread: Dunkin' Donuts manager pleads guilty to employing illegals

I.C.E. News Release

December 14, 2010
Portland, ME

Dunkin' Donuts manager pleads guilty to employing illegal aliens

PORTLAND, Maine - On Dec. 13, 2010, George Valvanis, 53, of Atkinson, N.H., pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a pattern or practice of recruiting or hiring illegal aliens unauthorized to work in the United States, and to one count of using a false attestation in an immigration document, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II of the District of Maine. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

According to court records, Valvanis managed several Dunkin' Donuts stores located in the Portland area. Between 2001 and 2009, he knowingly employed 18 illegal aliens to work in his stores. Valvanis faces a maximum prison term of five years on the false attestation charge and six months on the alien hiring charge.

"ICE HSI will hold employers who knowingly hire an illegal workforce accountable for their actions," said Bruce M. Foucart, special agent in charge of ICE HSI in Boston. Foucart oversees ICE HSI throughout New England. "Our office will continue to investigate and find employers who flout our laws and hire illegal labor, in order to reduce the demand for illegal employment and protect employment opportunities for the nation's lawful workforce. ICE HSI will use enforcement tools, civil and criminal, when appropriate to bring about compliance."

Sentencing before U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby is scheduled for April 2011.

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Any and every employer who knowlingly hires illegal aliens needs to serve serious jail time. Every state needs to implement laws enforcing this crime. God knows we will get no help in this regard from this whitehouse.

While I'm not at all surprised, and am glad of the work against employers who hire illegal aliens, instead of AMERICANS AND LEGAL immigrants, what happened to the illegals hired?
Here in WA state, when ICE went after an employer hiring illegals, Napolitano saw to it that the illegal aliens got work permits! I realize that this happened in 2009, but it's why I'm wondering about THIS case. Note that this also happened AFTER the economic collapse, making the giving of work permits even more heinous!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... id26m.html
Napolitano demands review of ICE raid at Bellingham plant
Originally published Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/ ... rk-permits

U.S. Govt. Gives Arrested Illegal Immigrants Work Permits
ViewDiscussion.Last Updated: Thu, 04/02/2009 - 3:33pmMore than two dozen illegal immigrants arrested for using fake documents to work at a Washington state engine plant have been released by the Department of Homeland Security and offered legal U.S. employment permits.

how about you go to nyc & see more of the illegal immigrant . they are like bugs.it a mess