The owner of a Charleroi staffing agency was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution on convictions of harboring illegal aliens for financial gain.
Andy Ha, 28, pleaded guilty to harboring illegal aliens for financial gain and failing to pay employment taxes back in February. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to 30 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay over $3.6 million in restitution.
Prosecutors say Ha owned a temporary staffing agency from September 2022 to April 2024 that provided workers to companies in the Charleroi area.
While running the business, investigators say he paid for illegal immigrants to stay at a hotel and transported them to and from their work.
Prosecutors also say that Ha only provided tax information for workers legally authorized to be in the country, which represented less than 10% of the workers he employed. This reportedly caused a tax loss of at least $3.1 million.
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