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FAIRFIELD WOMAN SENTENCED TO 14 MONTHS FOR IMMIGRATION AND TAX CRIMES
Bangor, Maine – Mei Juan Zhang, 31, of Fairfield, Maine, was sentenced to 14 months of imprisonment for harboring undocumented aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain, money laundering conspiracy, and conspiracy to file false employer’s quarterly federal tax returns.
According to court records, between 2009 and 2011, Zhang was the manager of the Grand Asian Buffet and the Super China Buffet, located on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville. In that capacity, she managed a Chinese buffet restaurant that brought undocumented aliens into Maine to work, had them work six to seven days per week, twelve hours per day, housed them in a cramped residence on Oak Street in Waterville, transported them back and forth each day to work, paid them under the table with cash generated illegally by the employment of undocumented aliens, and filed numerous false quarterly employment tax returns in which the undocumented aliens were not disclosed and employment taxes were not properly withheld or paid.
The investigation revealed that about half of the employees at the buffet over that period were undocumented, and that Zhang’s activities concealed about $250,000 in wages and thwarted the collection of about $55,000 in employment taxes.
Zhang pled guilty to the charges on April 18, 2013.
U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced the sentence, which was handed down by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. Zhang was also ordered to pay restitution of $54,288 to the Internal Revenue Service.
The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering & Fraud Investigations, with assistance from the Waterville Police Department.
Contact: Donald E. Clark, Assistant United States Attorney, (207) 780-3257.
Key Facts
- State: Maine
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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