The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey

theodp writes "We smack this IT geek around a little, take him for a nice car ride, threaten to 'take care of him' if he doesn't recant his story, give him 5 G's for his trouble, and badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed. Federal prosecutors allege that an H-1B visa-holding IT employee who was owed some $53,000 in back wages was threatened in meetings at restaurants and in his home if he didn't change his story. However, the victim captured some of what happened on tape, and two employees of an Illinois-based IT staffing company — not named in the indictment but identified by the NJ Star-Ledger as ComData Consulting Inc. of Rolling Meadows, IL — are now facing extortion-related charges and a possible 20 years in prison."

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Re:Excuse me? All criticism has been well earned.

[HungWeiLo]

All the smart people in India have already moved to the States with their families for a better living environment and better pay.

All the rest stay in India, where they job-hop every 3 months for a raise until all the remaining smart ones end up being in management, which really doesn't do their technical productivity any favors.

We're seeing the same sort of thing (with the job-hopping) in Eastern Europe now, but albeit at a much slower pace.