Farm owners face new charges
Updated: 2010-10-30 01:18:20
Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture Contact Us Wind Power Growth Slows to 2007 Levels Tractors Are Vintage , but Ready for Dirty Work Farm owners face new charges Published on October 29, 2010 in General Ag News and Notes and Vegtables HONOLULU The owners of Hawaii’s second-largest farm face new federal charges that they exploited dozens of Thai workers by lying about their wages and confining them to the . farm A federal grand jury re-indicted brothers Alec and Mike Sou of Aloun Farms on charges that they lured the Thai workers to Hawaii with false promises of high wages , and then kept them working by threatening deportation and confiscating their . visas The Sous initially reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors but then disputed
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