Evidence presented in federal court provides a look at the case prosecutors are building against one of the owners of Stash's Pizza.
Stavros Papantoniadis is facing one charge of forced labor related to the alleged treatment of a former employee who worked for him from 2001 to 2015.
The criminal complaint against Papantoniadis includes the experience of six additional employees, all undocumented immigrants, who shared accounts of violence and harassment.
Photos were submitted as evidence of an attack a former employee experienced when he quit in 2013.
According to the hospital record filed with it, the 29-year-old from Brazil said the scratches on his wrist were from his boss' nails and the bruising on his neck were from his shirt collar being pulled tight around his neck. Another employee who witnessed the altercation told Homeland Security investigators Papantoniadis lied to police who responded to the restaurant, falsely telling them that he hit the employee because he was holding a knife.
Referred to as Victim 5 in the criminal complaint, the employee told investigators he began working for Stash's pizzerias about a week after arriving in the United States. At the beginning, Victim 5 said he worked 50 to 60 hours per week. By the time he left, he was working approximately 72 hours per week and never received overtime compensation. When Victim 5 learned that his father-in-law died, he asked for time off, but Papantoniadis only...
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