Texas Co. Using Illegal Aliens to Manufacture Troops MRE's

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Employment firm pleads guilty to fraud charges (they falsified immigration forms -- e)
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

HARLINGEN - A San Antonio employment company has pleaded guilty to giving false information to FBI agents investigating a possible al-Qaida plot to poison military rations made in South Texas.


Remedy Intelligent Staffing, part of the San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., entered a guilty plea late Tuesday to a federal charge that it conspired to submit hundreds of falsified immigration forms to conceal the employment of undocumented workers at a McAllen food plant, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston.

The Wornick Co. hired Remedy to find temporary workers after receiving a $47.2 million government contract to produce 1.1 million Meals Ready-to-Eat for the invasion of Iraq.

Remedy has agreed to pay a criminal fine of up to $500,000 and a civil penalty of $414,000, a $1,000 fine for each of the 414 fraudulent immigration forms.

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1. So, when do they get the next no-bid contract from Bush?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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2. MRE's cost 47.00 EACH ?!!!! Not including shipping...

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3. link...?

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5. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2981532

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4. Think of the potential security risk. What if the wrong person

realized how easy it would be to get a job processing MRE's?

What if a batch got sent out with something wicked in them?

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6. That's what the investigation was about! Then Remedy LIED and

falsified docs for their illegal employees (400+ of them).

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7. it doesn't say in the article that something bad was in the food..

so the FBI was just working on a supposed plot...which is still scary.

What is the shelf-life on MRE's??

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8. I'd bet a million bucks that the temp company that LOST the bid

called the Feds to give a heads-up on the illegal (cheapest bid wins) employees.

I know that business and I'd have called.