Restaurant owner who employed 4 men killed in N. Indiana fire admits hiring illegal aliens

11:53 AM EDT, April 22, 2010

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana restaurant owner who employed four Mexican immigrants who died in a 2006 house fire has pleaded guilty to federal charges of concealing illegal aliens.

The fire killed the men inside a Michigan City house that was near the Fortune House Chinese restaurant where they worked.

Forty-year-old Zhi Jian Jiang of Sacramento, Calif., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in South Bend to charges that he hid his hiring and paying of illegal immigrants from Mexico. None of the charges are related to the fire or the deaths.

Jiang faces up to three years in prison under a plea agreement with prosecutors. His sentencing was scheduled for July 12.

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