A man has admitted to his role in a scheme in which he engaged in fraudulent activity designed to take advantage of undocumented workers for personal profit. After nearly 10 years of illegal activity, an employee reported the scheme to federal authorities and was brutally murdered just two days later. Federal authorities announced the man pled guilty to numerous charges and will face a 50-year sentence.
U.S. Attorney David H. Estes said, “Pablo Rangel-Rubio was responsible for employing at least 100 illegal aliens to work for a tree service, skimming from their paychecks to further fatten his wallet, and then helping arrange the murder of a man who exposed the scheme […] The substantial prison sentence from this plea will hold him accountable for those crimes.”
Department of Justice Announces Plea Deal in Illegal Immigrant Labor Scheme
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia recently announced Rangel-Rubio, a Mexican citizen illegally present in the United States, pled guilty to charges of Conspiracy to Conceal, Harbor and Shield Illegal Aliens and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering; three counts of Money Laundering; and one count of Aiding and Abetting in the Retaliation Against a Witness. The guilty plea subjects him to a negotiated sentence of 600 months (50 years) in prison and total forfeiture of his 26.62-acre residential compound located in Rincon, Georgia.
From roughly 2007 to 2017, Rangel-Rubio engaged in an illegal scheme to defraud workers...
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