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U.S. Indicts Tyson Foods For Alien Smuggling

Indictment Result Of 2½-Year Investigation

WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted executives and managers of Tyson Foods Inc. on charges of conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens to the company's poultry processing plants, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

A 36-count indictment unsealed Wednesday said Tyson's managers tolerated the hiring of illegal aliens to meet production goals and cut costs.

The company aided the immigrants by obtaining false documents so they could work at Tyson poultry processing plants "under the false pretense of being legally employable," the department said, quoting the indictment.

The indictment charges two corporate executives, Robert Hash, vice president of the retail fresh division, and Gerald Lankford, former human resources manager. Four other former managers are also named.

The indictment is the result of a 2½-year undercover investigation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Fifteen plants were implicated in the conspiracy.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001

Answers

Funny thing, yesterday when I went to town, I was following a Tyson's semi and when we passed a DOT officer, he flipped a U turn and followed me very closely trying to see around me. When he could finally pass me he was on his radio and went right up against the Tyson truck. The DOT didn't stop him, but sure was checking him out.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001

From what I have read on another site, illegal aliens isn't the only thing that Tyson has been accused of smuggling into the county. And that other smuggling is alleged to go back to the period when Clinton was governor down there.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001