{"id":1495818,"date":"2024-10-12T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1495818"},"modified":"2024-10-12T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T03:15:00","slug":"feds-find-million-in-cash-while-investigating-staffing-firm-supplying-haitians-to-charleroi-pa-food-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/feds-find-million-in-cash-while-investigating-staffing-firm-supplying-haitians-to-charleroi-pa-food-factory\/1495818\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Find Million In Cash While Investigating Staffing Firm Supplying Haitians To Charleroi, PA Food Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feds Find Million In Cash While Investigating Staffing Firm Supplying Haitians To Charleroi, PA Food Factory<\/span><\/p>\n

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A mysterious staffing firm operating a complex van transportation network supplying\u00a0low-cost Haitian labor to a\u00a0Charleroi, PA-based company that operates multiple food packing plants in the area has been at the center of a\u00a0federal investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, local media outlet\u00a0Action News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>revealed that\u00a0federal investigators had been\u00a0investigating staffing firm\u00a0Prosperity Services, which supplies cheap migrant labor to\u00a0Fourth Street Foods in Charleroi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to Action News, Fourth Street “employs 700 immigrants from 41 countries, many of them Haitians.” The migrants work on conveyor lines in massive ice boxes to slap breakfast bowls and sandwiches together under various private-label brands for big box retailers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here’s the bombshell from the media outlet published Friday evening:<\/p>\n

Many of <\/em>Fourth Street’s workers are actually employed by a contractor, Prosperity Services<\/em><\/strong>. Prosperity also <\/em>transports workers in vans<\/em><\/strong>, which can be seen throughout Charleroi.<\/em><\/p>\n

In court records, federal investigators said Prosperity “<\/em>knowingly paid undocumented non-citizen employees with cash<\/em><\/strong>” and “<\/em>transported and housed undocumented non-citizens for employment purposes<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the feds <\/em>seized nearly $1 million in cash<\/em><\/strong> from Prosperity and two men affiliated with the company, including Andy Ha, the company president.<\/em><\/p>\n

Incredible footage revealing an operation in Charleroi, PA where Haitians are being bussed to and from food factories operated by Fourth Street Foods.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s estimated that 90% of workers are now made up of Haitians.<\/p>\n

Kamala imported 2,000 Haitians into this town of 4,000 people\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/6KrjecNdmh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

In a separate report,\u00a0journalist Christopher Rufo<\/a> found out…<\/p>\n

At the <\/em>center of this system in Charleroi is Fourth Street Foods<\/em><\/strong>, a frozen-food supplier with\u00a0approximately<\/a> <\/em>1,000 employees, most of whom work on the assembly line<\/em><\/strong>. In an exclusive interview, Chris Scott, the\u00a0CEO and COO<\/a> of Fourth Street Barbeque (the legal name of the firm that\u00a0does business as<\/a> Fourth Street Foods) explained that his company, like many factory businesses, has long relied on <\/em>immigrant labor, which, he estimates, makes up about 70 percent of its workforce<\/em><\/strong>. The firm employs many temporary workers, and, with the arrival of the <\/em>Haitians<\/em><\/strong>, has found a new group of laborers willing to work long days in an industrial freezer, starting at about $12 an hour.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of these workers are not directly employed by Fourth Street Foods. <\/em><\/strong>Instead, according to Scott, they are hired through<\/em> staffing agencies<\/em><\/strong>, which pay workers about $12 an hour for entry-level food-processing roles and bill Fourth Street Foods over $16 per hour to cover their costs, including transportation and overhead. (The\u00a0average<\/a> wage for an entry-level food processor in Washington County was $16.42 per hour in 2023.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Rufo uncovered other staffing companies …<\/p>\n

According to a Haitian migrant who worked at Fourth Street and a review of video footage, three staffing agencies\u2014Wellington Staffing Agency<\/a>,\u00a0Celebes Staffing Services<\/a>, and\u00a0Advantage Staffing Agency<\/a>\u2014are key conduits for labor in the city. None have websites, advertise their services, or appear in job listings. According to Scott, Fourth Street Foods relies on agencies to staff its contract workforce, but he declined to specify which agencies, citing\u00a0nondisclosure agreements.<\/em><\/p>\n

He continued:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0property search<\/a> for <\/em>David Barbe and his other business,\u00a0DB Rentals LLC<\/a>, shows records of more than 50 properties<\/em><\/strong>, many of which are concentrated on the same streets.<\/em><\/p>\n

And continued some more:<\/p>\n

No doubt, the situation is <\/em>advantageous to David Barbe<\/em><\/strong> of Fourth Street Foods, who can pay <\/em>$16 an hour to the agencies that employ his contract labor force, then recapture some of those wages in rent…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fourth Street Foods owner David Barbe told the media outlet:\u00a0“I don’t know anything about it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Considering the town has been swamped by Haitians … solely for the purpose of supplying\u00a0Fourth Street Foods with cheap labor, the owner’s statement to the media outlet seems a little suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The travesty in\u00a0Charleroi begins with the failure of the federal government’s open borders, flooding the nation with ten-plus million migrants. This has led to a ‘great job replacement’ of native-born factory workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How is this not the biggest political talking point right now: since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs. pic.twitter.com\/Z5HVWmQ24C<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Rufo noted:<\/p>\n

The basic pattern in Charleroi has been replicated in thousands of cities and towns across America: the federal government has opened the borders to all comers; a web of <\/em>publicly funded NGOs has facilitated the flow of migrants<\/em><\/strong> within the country; local industries have welcomed the arrival of cheap, pliant labor.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is spreading…<\/p>\n

First Springfield, Then Charleroi, Now Migrant Crisis Swamps This Small Indiana Town https:\/\/t.co\/g1ev2yZwi7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

“Blow Your Mind”: Ex-WSJ Journo Uncovers Hub Of An Alleged Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio https:\/\/t.co\/Wz1hOGy3XD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Union Makes Shock Claim: Colorado Meat Factory Involved In “Mgmt-Led Human Trafficking” Of Haitians https:\/\/t.co\/fusclWbmax<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

This is nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

US Map Shows Potential Areas Of Migrant ‘Great Job Replacement’ https:\/\/t.co\/L0IfntWwmK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not America First – this is globalist open border corporate profits first, at the expense of the native-born blue-collar worker.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/12\/2024 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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