Feds: 3 execs of Chuy's hired border crossers illegally

[Newsjock]

Source: Arizona Daily Star

Federal agents arrested the father-son owners of 15 Chuy's Mesquite Broiler restaurants in Arizona and California on Wednesday on allegations they were knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and paying them under the table.

Mark Evenson, 58, of Paradise Valley, and his son, Christopher Evenson, 39, of Oro Valley, were arrested along with the company's accountant, Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe.

... The arrests are the culmination of a two-year investigation that began with an anonymous tip that Chuy's was hiring illegal immigrants, Crocker said. The Evensons hired illegal immigrants to work in the kitchens of 15 Chuy's restaurants in Arizona and California, paying them off the books to avoid paying taxes, he said.

... After receiving a complaint about illegal workers at a Lake Havasu City Chuy's in September 2010, Mark Evenson told an employee, "If we throw some American people in there, maybe that'll just shut (them) up," the indictment says. He told the employee, who he believed was an illegal immigrant, "I just need to get you off the oh, show floor. I need to hide you in the kitchen."

Read more: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_4066470c-0f73-5687-bb9e-f2b7c7f2fb69.html

[UTUSN]

1. Well, *some*body (else) has been hiring those 12 millions.

I actually read the whole article to see what unusual angle there was to it. O.K., eleven restaurants in a chain, O.K. so it's a slightly big operation, not a mom and pop job. The employers scabbed out on $400,000 in paying Social Security and other contributions. These employers had a previous settlement for $40,000 for copyright violation. O.K., so they are habitual criminals and make profits, dare I say, "capitalists"?!1

Hmmm, anonymous tip. Could it be somebody from OTHER RESTAURANTS?!1 Hah, the feds say this activity results in "unfair commercial advantage" --- uh, yes, that's why all of these employers have been HIRING 12 MILLION people, that would be the point of their activity, profiting off of the unfair advantage.

I was imagining the originality angle might be that they hired Mexicans to enhance the authenticity of their food product?!1


It's all Supply and Demand: If the U.S. didn't ASK for drugs and cheap labor, they WOULDN'T BE OVER HERE!1

[Michigan-Arizona]

2. Oro Valley Chuys

A number of year's ago myself & a friend went there to have lunch. We seen so many picture's of Bush all over the wall's & walked back out the door. I've never stepped into another Chuys since!