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    SC- Feds Accuse SC Poultry Plant of Illegal Hiring

    Feds Accuse SC Poultry Plant of Illegal Hiring

    07/16/09 12:43 pm

    Federal authorities say a South Carolina poultry processing plant knew its managers were hiring dozens of illegal immigrants at a facility raided in October.

    U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins on Thursday added Columbia Farms Inc. to an indictment that already accuses two of the plant's managers of illegally hiring at a facility in Greenville. 4 Interact:
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    The managers had been charged with knowingly harboring illegal immigrants and telling employees to use falsified documents. The plant now faces fines if convicted of knowingly hiring and employing illegal immigrants.

    North Carolina-based House of Raeford, which owns the plant, said Thursday it doesn't knowingly hire illegal immigrants and is cooperating with investigators.

    The October raid led to 300 arrests.

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    COLUMBIA -- The company that runs a South Carolina poultry plant knew its managers were hiring illegal immigrants at a facility raided in October, federal prosecutors said in an indictment released Thursday.


    U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins added Columbia Farms Inc. to an indictment that already accuses plant manager Barry Cronic and personnel manager Elaine Crump of illegally hiring workers at a processing plant in Greenville.


    In the indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury earlier this week, Columbia Farms Inc. is named in nearly 30 charges. Through Crump and Cronic, the company knowingly continued to employ 29 illegal immigrants, the first of whom was hired in November 2001, prosecutors said.


    The managers had been accused of telling employees to use falsified documents and could face both fines and prison time if convicted. Columbia Farms itself could face additional fines.


    North Carolina-based House of Raeford, which owns the plant, said Thursday it doesn't knowingly hire illegal immigrants and is cooperating with investigators. The parent company has not been charged.


    "For nearly a year Columbia Farms Inc. has cooperated and will continue to cooperate with the Federal government in every step of their investigation," Dave Witter said in a statement. "Columbia Farms contends that it has followed all state and federal employment laws and looks forward to vindicating the Company's position in a court of law."


    An attorney for Columbia Farms did not immediately return a message.


    The investigation into the company first broke in June 2008, when federal agents arrested five plant supervisors after finding what appeared to be false information on employment records. A month later, personnel manager Elaine Crump was arrested and charged with telling employees to use falsified immigration documents.


    The situation intensified several months later, when scores of federal agents descended on the plant in October and detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants. Witnesses said employees screamed and scrambled to get away, but agents blocked the entrances.


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    Feds indict S.C. chicken plant
    House of Raeford-owned company is accused of deliberately hiring undocumented workers.
    By Franco Ordoñez
    fordonez@charlotteobserver.com
    Posted: Friday, Jul. 17, 2009

    A truck loaded with chickens pulls into the Columbia Farms processing plant in Greenville, S.C. Federal prosecutors have moved up the corporate ladder, charging workers, managers and now the company.


    Immigration agents raid the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms chicken processing plant in October 2008.

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