Manhattan Halal Gyro King LLC withholds information about pay practices
NEW YORK – The operator of three northern New Jersey restaurants has learned that not cooperating with a federal investigation and ignoring several federal court orders can get you arrested.
Today, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Samad Uddin – also known as Saman Khan – owner of Manhattan Halal Gyro King LLC, which has locations in Teaneck, Elmwood Park and Paterson, for their failure to provide the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division with information requested as part of a compliance investigation begun in November 2020.
“The arrest of Manhattan Halal Gyro King’s owner Samad Uddin shows that the U.S. Department of Labor will not tolerate an employer’s unwillingness to comply with federal investigators,” said Regional Solicitor Jeffrey Rogoff in New York. “The use of U.S. Marshals by a federal court also proves that we will use every available instrument to show employers are not above the law.”
An administrative subpoena was issued in December 2020, but the employer again did not supply documents and testimony under oath the division requested to determine if the employer’s pay practices complied with the Fair Labor Standards Act. In response, the department’s Office of the Solicitor completed the following actions in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey:
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