Guam employer who treated workers 'like slaves' appeals sentence
A contractor accused of treating almost 200 non-immigrant workers from China like slaves filed a notice that he is appealing his conviction and sentence with the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Steven Wang was recently sentenced to a combined 10 years in federal prison in two criminal cases after having pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including mail fraud, visa fraud, money laundering and willful failure to remit taxes withheld from workers' paychecks. He was also sentenced for conspiracy to commit visa fraud.
According to court documents, from 2005 to 2009, Wang paid almost 200 workers, who were petitioned on H-2B work visas, significantly less than the legal minimum wage and what they were expecting to have received before leaving China.
"These were men who had hopes of being able to provide for their families back home and making a decent wage," said Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam during the sentencing. "It really does appear that he treated them like slaves."
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