I'll have an ICEE, some Marlboros, and 2 Pakistani slaves

[MARIS61]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52229281/ns/local_news-portsmouth_va#.Ub9fQtiHPZc

Federal authorities indicted nine people, including three from Hampton Roads, as part of a probe into human smuggling, identity theft and money laundering involving 7-Eleven franchise stores.

Document: Defendants listed in multi-state scheme

The investigation involves allegations that store owners helped smuggle workers into the U.S. from Pakistan. It is the largest case of criminal immigration forfeiture in the Department of Homeland Security's history.

The indictments were unsealed Monday.

According to the court documents, Farrukh and Bushra Baig, a married couple from Long Island, New York, owned or controlled twelve of the 7-Eleven stores in question. Farrukh's brothers, Zahid and Shannawaz Baig, are also listed as defendants. Zahid is from Chesapeake, Va. and Shannawaz is from Virginia Beach, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Tariq Rana, a Pakistan citizen living in Chesapeake, and four others are also listed on the indictment. They are accused of conspiring to commit wire fraud, stealing identities and harboring illegal immigrants.

The indictment states the defendants employed more than 50 illegal immigrants at 14 7-Eleven franchise stores in Long Island and Virginia. These employees were provided 20 stolen identities of U.S. citizens, including those of a child, three dead people and a Coast Guard cadet, to conceal their scheme. The identity theft victims are from seven states.

The defendants reportedly stole a large portion of the illegal immigrants' wages and also required the employees live in homes owned by the defendants. The workers had to pay rent in cash to the defendants.
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The scheme reportedly profited more than $182 million since 2000 from the 7-Eleven franchise stores.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

182 million/13 years (2000-present)/ 50 employees = $280,000 per employee/year

i should get a job at 7/11

 

[jlprk]

I read the post, intuitively rejected the rotten legal system's number, did the arithmetic in my head, then noticed Post#2. I already knew that Brainiac is a brain.

There are 4 shifts per week, so if each employee received 10% of minimum wage (it said they got a little, not nothing), and employer-paid tax benefits are 10% of gross pay, then illegal profit per employee was $125,000 (1 employee per shift) to $250,000 (2 employees per shift).

Since minimum wage is 8-9 per hour, annual pay should be under $20,000, so the overpaid legal system overstated it 6 to 12 times to what their clerical staff must make, $125,000 to $250,000 per year. They don't know what most people make.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Um, just FYI, Maris:

7-Eleven sells Slurpees, not ICEE's. ICEE's are waaaaayyyyy better than Slurpees.