Friday, April 22, 2011

ARIZONA - EMPLOYER OF ILLEGALS FACES 86 YEARS IN PRISON

April 21, 2011


Arizona: Restaurant Owners ChargedBy JULIA PRESTON



Two owners of Mexican restaurants in a Southwest chain were arraigned on Thursday in federal court in Phoenix on 19 charges that they knowingly hired illegal immigrants as kitchen workers and committed tax fraud by paying them off the books. Mark Evenson, 58, and his son Christopher Evenson, 39, owners of Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler restaurants in Arizona and California, were arrested Wednesday following immigration raids at 20 restaurants. Also arrested were an accountant for the chain and 41 immigrant workers suspected of being unauthorized. If convicted on all charges, Mark Evenson faces up to 86 years in prison, in one of the toughest cases brought by Obama administration authorities against an employer.



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