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."

Comments

Re:Unacceptable

[Anonymous Coward]

Because indigenous US locals would have had different sounding names?

Re:Let it begin

[BitZtream]

All of this isolationist shit should have died along with the 20th century.

You are utterly ignorant.

I suggest before you start talking about how 'isolationist' America is, you get a few facts about how many people legally immigrate to America every year.

If we just grant everyone in the entire world who asks for it citizen ship then we'll effectively turn America into the worst of 3rd world nations over night.

We can help other people, no argument there, but we can't be fucking retarded like you suggest or we won't do anything but hurt EVERYONE, them AND us.

If we just grant these people citizenships, then we won't have to worry about the ethical ramifications of having multiple legal classes of workers in the country.

What? Why? What logic did you use to establish that? If we make them 'legal' they'll still be the exact same workers as before doing the exact same jobs.

If they want to work, they'll still work under the table. You can report people for paying under the table but a lot of times the company that 'pays' you will just disappear and you'll be unemployed.

In whatever Utopina fantasy universe you imagine it may be possible for America to support the entire world, but in case you haven't noticed, supporting our own internal population growth isn't sustainable, let alone taking in others.

Here is an even better idea:

No, thats a thoughtless idiotic idea spit out by some idealist with no actual connection to reality what so ever.

We are not all equal. We never will be. We never have been. There will always be members of our species that do better in some situations than in others. If you want to live in a world with no classes you'll find the only thing you accomplish is getting run over by someone with far fewer delusions.

Re:Free Market

[Rasperin]

Not true, Accenture was created in 2000 2 years after Enron. They used to be known as Andersen Consulting (yes a subsidary). And they only broke off to there own branch because it was melting and a lot of the executives thought that would be an easy way to hide. Source: I worked for them, I have the entire company history as a booklet and the seminar they take you through explain that you may have a bad rap because of it. They may be trying to change there history now, they were then. Such as, Enron also employed there IT workforce. Some food for thought.