Post by Logan on Mar 10, 2017 4:23:36 GMT -6
Puerto Rico Restaurant Owners Indicted Over Minimum Wage Ripoff
SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 2, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging José Manuel Abreu-Ramírez and Milagros De los Santos-De Abreu with obstructing a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into their failure to pay minimum wage and overtime to their employees at the restaurants José José and El Catador D’Abreu in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Both restaurants were owned and operated by the defendants and located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez and Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Mikulka of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Regional Office made
the announcement.
The 25 count Indictment charges Abreu-Ramírez and De los Santos with eight counts of false statements to a federal agency, three counts of wire fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and five counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant by intimidation, threats, corrupt persuasion or misleading conduct.
The allegations in the indictment indicate that instead of making payment to the employees in the amounts the defendants had agreed to pay pursuant to an investigation conducted by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Departmentof Labor and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor, the defendants made their employees endorse checks that had been issued to prove compliance with federal law and then withheld the checks from the employees. Abreu‑Ramírez and De los Santos either cashed or deposited the endorsed checks into their own bank accounts and kept the funds for their own benefit. The amounts Abreu‑Ramírez and De los Santos unlawfully retained from their employees in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was approximately $23,448.47.
Read more: puertoricomonitor.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/restaurant-owners-indicted-over-minimum.html
SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 2, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging José Manuel Abreu-Ramírez and Milagros De los Santos-De Abreu with obstructing a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into their failure to pay minimum wage and overtime to their employees at the restaurants José José and El Catador D’Abreu in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Both restaurants were owned and operated by the defendants and located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez and Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Mikulka of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Regional Office made
the announcement.
The 25 count Indictment charges Abreu-Ramírez and De los Santos with eight counts of false statements to a federal agency, three counts of wire fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and five counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant by intimidation, threats, corrupt persuasion or misleading conduct.
The allegations in the indictment indicate that instead of making payment to the employees in the amounts the defendants had agreed to pay pursuant to an investigation conducted by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Departmentof Labor and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor, the defendants made their employees endorse checks that had been issued to prove compliance with federal law and then withheld the checks from the employees. Abreu‑Ramírez and De los Santos either cashed or deposited the endorsed checks into their own bank accounts and kept the funds for their own benefit. The amounts Abreu‑Ramírez and De los Santos unlawfully retained from their employees in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was approximately $23,448.47.
Read more: puertoricomonitor.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/restaurant-owners-indicted-over-minimum.html