A lawn company in Nebraska has pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants and manipulating their pay so that it didn’t have to report them. How criminal employers juggle the books…some insight and the entire news story here.

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AP
Owner Pleads Guilty in Immigration Bust
Wednesday October 17, 1:42 pm ET
By Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer
Lawn Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Harboring Illegal Immigrants

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island lawn care company owner has pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants and manipulating financial transactions to avoid reporting them.
David Wortman turned himself in for arrest last month, one day after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler and arrested 19 suspected illegal immigrants.

The criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Nebraska accused Wortman of knowingly hiring the illegal workers and paying them in cash to work for Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler.

Wortman admitted Monday to hiring 26 workers without checking their identification or getting any proof they were eligible to work in the United States.

Seven of the workers were arrested in May after a traffic stop of a Cloudburst van, ICE spokesman Tim Counts said Wednesday.