Employment firm pleads guilty to fraud charges (makes MRE's for war)

[Judi Lynn]

Jan. 6, 2005, 11:52PM

Employment firm pleads guilty to fraud charges
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

HARLINGEN - A San Antonio employment company has pleaded guilty to giving false information to FBI agents investigating a possible al-Qaida plot to poison military rations made in South Texas.

Remedy Intelligent Staffing, part of the San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., entered a guilty plea late Tuesday to a federal charge that it conspired to submit hundreds of falsified immigration forms to conceal the employment of undocumented workers at a McAllen food plant, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston.

The Wornick Co. hired Remedy to find temporary workers after receiving a $47.2 million government contract to produce 1.1 million Meals Ready-to-Eat for the invasion of Iraq.

Remedy has agreed to pay a criminal fine of up to $500,000 and a civil penalty of $414,000, a $1,000 fine for each of the 414 fraudulent immigration forms.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2981532


Governor Bush and his wife Laura, right, share a laugh with Nellie Connally during a 1995 ceremony honoring Mrs. Connally's contributions to Texas.



Next Republican President?

[MSgt213]

1. Wow really hit them hard since they only have a 42. mil contact huh?

[NYC]

2. So the MREs are made by underpaid illegal aliens.

Government contracting. The government isn't supposed to engage companies that break the law.