US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts

MrLiberty · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2012, 08:08 AM

obama's justice dept just can't seem to get anything right. Holder should be dismissed along with every other incompetent boob he brought along with him.

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The Justice Department spent millions of dollars on what is considered to be the largest human trafficking case in the US, only to dismiss it on the grounds that the government would be unable to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

*Federal prosecutors dropped the human trafficking case against the owner of a labor contracting company accused of exploiting hundreds of Thai farm workers.

The workers were subject to threats of deportation, had their passports taken away and were forced into debt by Global Horizons Inc. The company used these forced labor tactics to keep the workers in their service.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the company to court for bringing the workers into the country “on the promise of high-paying wages and temporary visas,” only to be “forced into vermin-ridden housing, denied the opportunity to leave the premises and subjected to harassment, including physical assault by their overseers,” reported the United Press International.

Eight executives and business associates from the company, three of which pled guilty, were accused of misusing 600 Thai workers that were placed in farms throughout the US. Among the accused was the CEO of the company, Mordechai Orian.

In a press release on its website, the EEOC said workers were crammed into rooms in large numbers, in houses that were infested with rats and insects. Many did not have beds to sleep in, water to drink or enough food to eat.

US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts — RT

Coyote · #2 (**permalink**) 07-23-2012, 08:53 AM

Actually the DoJ seems to have gotten sloppy for some time now - remember the Ted Stevens case? I don't kow if this is a new trend or I just didn't pay attention to it before but there seem to be a lot of cases that do not have sufficient evidence to come to trial being brought to trial (Edwards being the most recent). At least this one was dismissed but they do have a duty to investigate it - I don't think that is something to complain about.

PT Again · #3 (**permalink**) 07-23-2012, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by MrLiberty

obama's justice dept just can't seem to get anything right. Holder should be dismissed along with every other incompetent boob he brought along with him.

US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts — RT

THey have 600 eye witnesses.............how can you **** that up?

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