Thread: Shipley Do-Nut pays $1.5 million for hiring illegal help

Shipley Do-Nut pays $1.5 million for hiring illegal help
By MARY FLOOD Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 7, 2009, 1:38PM


Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company Inc. paid the government $1.5 million today for conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants.

Senior U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein sentenced the corporation to be under court supervision for three years and fined the company $250,000. That's in addition to $1.3 million the company paid to Immigration and Customs Enforcement instead of forfeiting the houses where the illegal immigrant employees were living.

The sentencing hearing marked the end of several years of legal battles for the regional company, said president Lawrence Shipley III, a third-generation doughnut maker.

“We can go back to doing what we do. We're a better company now,â€

The sentencing hearing marked the end of several years of legal battles for the regional company, said president Lawrence Shipley III, a third-generation doughnut maker.

Why should this case take years to win or lose?

These sound like a bunch of bad apples. And company housing. That is a scary though living under a corporations roof. Guess they only get what they truly pay for in the way of hired help!