Company Hired Illegals to Make MREs ($47 million Defense contract)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Immigrants_Arrested.html

A Texas employment agency was sentenced to five years of probation for hiring illegal immigrants to work at the nation's top producer of military battlefield rations, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

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The San Antonio-based company, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, pleaded guilty in January to hiring illegal immigrants and trying to cover it up by falsifying employment eligibility forms. The workers were hired for Wornick Co., which makes MREs — or "meals ready-to-eat."

The investigation was initiated in February 2003 after an al-Qaida operative was arrested with information pointing to McAllen and Wornick as terrorist targets. Wornick had been awarded a $47 million contract to produce more than 1.1 million MREs for U.S. forces in Iraq.

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force ran background checks on Wornick employees and found hundreds of temporary employees with fraudulent documentation.

[Maddy McCall]

1. That's all we ate during the aftermath of Katrina.

We ate box after box of MREs, straight from Womick, TX. Quite frankly, they were delicious.