SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Texas employment agency has pleaded guilty to helping illegal immigrants get jobs at a company making rations for U.S. troops in Iraq.
The FBI was tipped off to the scam after it got information from an al-Qaida operative that the military rations company, Wornick Co., of Cincinnati, might be a terrorist target, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., which operated under the name of Remedy Intelligent Staffing, tried to cover up hundreds of falsified I-9 employment-eligibility documents that allowed illegal workers to be hired by Wornick.
Wornick had a $47 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to deliver $1.1 million meals between February and May of 2003.
Tollin Vice President James Echensberger pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to provide false and fictitious statements during an FBI investigation, the Journal said.
