CHICAGO – After more than two years, a Chicago restaurant owner has finally complied with an administrative subpoena to provide documentation for a U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigation. The compliance comes after a federal judge held Wilson Torres, owner of La Bomba Food Restaurant Inc., in contempt and confined him to one night in jail and ordered him to pay $40,500 in fines.
On May 4, 2020, the department’s Office of the Solicitor filed a request with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, seeking to enforce the administrative subpoena the department issued as part of its wage and hour investigation of La Bomba Restaurant. During the next two years, La Bomba and Torres failed to comply with the subpoena repeatedly. Torres paid the department $2,975 in attorney’s fees in March 2022 after the department filed a contempt motion to enforce the subpoena. The owner’s lack of action prompted U.S. District Court Judge Martha Pacold to impose fines for contempt of court and the brief imprisonment on June 15, 2022.
In a status hearing on Aug. 23, 2022, the department reported that La Bomba and Torres had complied with producing most of the necessary documents. On Aug. 31, 2022, the department and La Bomba filed a joint stipulation of dismissal with the judge, after the Wage and Hour Division received the necessary documents to conduct its investigation.
“By enforcing the Department of Labor’s subpoena and holding...
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