Lawn & Landscape

Kentucky landscape contractor sentenced for employing illegals

Dean A. Hedges, owner of Hedges Landscape Specialists in Crestwood, Ky., was sentenced to 5 years probation for employing illegal aliens. — Hedges was sentenced in US District Court and was fined $24,000 His company was fined. He and the company previously agreed to forfeit $147,813 as part of the criminal punishment.

Hedges, who pled guilty in October, admitted that from September 2006 to September 2007, he, through his company, Hedges Landscape Specialists, knowingly employed at least 12 illegal aliens (a felony offense), and that he engaged in a pattern or practice of knowingly hiring illegal aliens (a misdemeanor offense).

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