Thread: Green Bay restaurateur gets probation for hiring illegal ali

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/mil...4/daily43.html

Green Bay restaurant owner has been sentenced for hiring illegal aliens to work in his three restaurants and for providing them with false identity documents, according to U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic in Milwaukee.

Steven Metzler, 46, co-owner of Julie's Café L.L.C., was sentenced Oct. 13 to five years' probation and six months of house confinement. He also was fined $5,000 and Julie's Café was fined $20,000, Biskupic said.

Julie's Café has two restaurants in Green Bay and one outlet in DePere. The company is owned by Metzler and his wife, Biskupic said.

From 1998 until June 15, 2004, the company employed illegal aliens who were required to buy false identification documents from Metzler and his wife in order to work, Biskupic said. The documents included fraudulent Social Security cards and birth certificates of United States citizens, he said.

The illegal workers were paid in cash, and the fees for the false identity papers were deducted from their wages, Biskupic said. Metzler harbored the aliens by providing them with employment at the restaurants, he said.

Julie's Café L.L.C. was charged in April with employing illegal aliens, and Metzler pleaded guilty that month to harboring illegal aliens, Biskupic said.

The charges resulted from an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, the Green Bay Police Department and the U.S. Social Security Administration, Biskupic said.

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Probation, house arrest- this is crap, just another slap on the wrist. All three restaurants should have been seized, sold & profits from proceeds used to hire more ICE agents. Both this guy and his wife should pull 13.6 years in PRISON

Well, GLORY BE! What a RACKET they had going. I'm glad they got fined but it wasn't nearly enough. I bet they've done a very lucrative business in fake documents as well as cheap labor for their restaurants.