NATION IN BRIEF : SOUTH CAROLINA : INS Collects Record Illegal Alien Fine
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The chairman of a South Carolina textile company has pleaded guilty to hiring illegal aliens, and his company has been fined $225,000, the largest civil penalty ever collected by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Alfred Mizhir, 55, chairman of Piedmont Quilting Corp. of Walhalla, S.C., pleaded guilty to 117 counts of harboring illegal aliens and two counts of filing false quarterly wage reports with the Internal Revenue Service.
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