Thread: Kansas corporation admits knowingly hiring illegal alien to run McDonald's franchise

Not one word of what actions were taken against the illegal alien. Did they go to IHOP?

Feds charge Wichita firm over illegal immigrant

ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press
Updated 5:23 p.m., Wednesday, October 31, 2012

"Employment is the primary driving force behind illegal immigration," Grissom said. "I'm calling on all Kansas employers to strengthen their hiring practices and to help us safeguard this nation by hiring and maintaining a lawful workforce."

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Wichita firm Wednesday with knowingly hiring an illegal immigrant as manager of one of its McDonald's restaurants, the latest prosecution in a widening federal crackdown in Kansas that aims to make employers accountable for using illegal workers to gain a competitive advantage.

A criminal information filed in federal court charges McCalla Corp. with a felony count of aiding and abetting the use of a false document. The firm operates six McDonald's restaurants in Wichita.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom told reporters that a tentative plea agreement has been reached in which the company will pay $400,000 in fines and forfeitures. He said the company was charged with only one count, but that the investigation revealed it knowingly hired numerous illegal immigrants.

"Employment is the primary driving force behind illegal immigration," Grissom said. "I'm calling on all Kansas employers to strengthen their hiring practices and to help us safeguard this nation by hiring and maintaining a lawful workforce."

McCalla Corp. president Roy McCalla said in a statement released through his attorney that corporations are responsible for the acts of their employees. He also said the incident involving the McDonald's manager does not reflect his company's policies.

"This corporation takes seriously its obligation to comply with the law and takes full responsibility for this single isolated incident charged by the government based on the action of one individual who is no longer employed by the company," McCalla said.
A court hearing is set for Nov. 14.

The prosecution in Wichita is the second time within two months that a Kansas firm has been charged with knowingly employing illegal immigrants. The other case involved the owners of two hotels, one in Overland Park and another in Kansas City, Mo.
Grissom said holding employers accountable is one of the most effective ways to combat illegal immigration.

"Businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers are putting us all at risk," Grissom said. "They are creating a marketplace for unauthorized workers who may resort to presenting false documents to gain employment, completing applications for fraudulent benefits and even stealing the identities of legal U.S. workers."

Court documents show the investigation into McCalla Corp. began in February 2011 when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security received a tip that the Wichita firm employed illegal immigrants.

The U.S. attorney's office says that in the plea agreement, the company is admitting its director of operations learned in March 2011 that one of its restaurant managers was using a Social Security number not assigned to her, and that he told the manager she needed to provide him new documents to confirm her work eligibility.

Two days later, the restaurant manager presented a resident alien identification card, which the director of operations realized was not genuine because it takes weeks for a foreign national to obtain such a card. However, the director of operations simply updated the paperwork and took no further action, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

The restaurant manager worked from May 2009 to September 2012.

source: Feds charge Wichita firm over illegal immigrant - San Antonio Express-News

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

A criminal information filed in federal court charges McCalla Corp. with a felony count of aiding and abetting the use of a false document. The firm operates six McDonald's restaurants in Wichita.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom told reporters that a tentative plea agreement has been reached in which the company will pay $400,000 in fines and forfeitures. He said the company was charged with only one count, but that the investigation revealed it knowingly hired numerous illegal immigrants.

"Employment is the primary driving force behind illegal immigration," Grissom said. "I'm calling on all Kansas employers to strengthen their hiring practices and to help us safeguard this nation by hiring and maintaining a lawful workforce."

Another 'Bama farce. Fines are just a cost of doing business. If we want to deter companies form hiring illegals, we'll have to put some of their executives in jail. Either that, or implement universal E-Verify.
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Wichita Business Journal by John Stearns, Reporter
Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 5:00am CDT

The U.S. attorney for Kansas made it clear to employers on Wednesday that employing undocumented workers will cost them if they’re caught — and he said more will be.

“As an employer, it’s not worth losing your assets or having to endure a heavy fine to compete in an unfair manner against your fellow competitors,” Barry Grissom said Wednesday during a news conference announcing a plea agreement with a Wichita McDonald’s franchisee.

McCalla Corp. was charged with one felony count of knowingly accepting a fraudulent identification document offered as proof that an employee was eligible to work. The company agreed ...

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