Restaurateur charged after fire that killed 5 immigrants
Source: Detroit Free Press
In a tragic immigration case that ended with five dead restaurant workers, the federal government today announced criminal charges against a man they believe bears responsibility in the deaths: the Chinese restaurant owner who hired them and housed them in the Novi home where they died.
Roger Tam, 55, owner of Kim's Garden on Novi Road, is charged with harboring five illegal immigrants -- including three teenagers -- who wound up dead following a fire that started on a mattress in the basement where they were sleeping. Tam owned the home on Mystic Forest Drive, where he also lived part-time, and let the immigrants sleep there at night as a condition of employment at his restaurant, the complaint said.
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