After courthouse raids, scrutiny now on hiring.

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, August 3, 2008

By Katherine Gregg, Tom Mooney and Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writers


TriState Enterprises, 1270 Mineral Spring Ave., North Providence.

The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman

Early one morning in June, along a quiet street in East Providence, a knot of demonstrators gathered outside the home of Lucilia Ramos and hoisted signs reading “Pay Your Workers — Stop Wage Robbery.â€