Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Jerks a-plenty

This must happen often but we don't hear about it in the news much.

On May 25, a former senior customs inspector, Robert Butman, pleaded guilty to threatening to deport an illegal immigrant if he didn't get $10,000.

According to the Chicago Tribune, a business owner agreed to pay the $10,000 to deport an employee who had sued the owner for sexual harassment.

Butman could get more than 7 years in prison for this. Sentencing is July 27.

We'll see if that'll make the papers.

It's unfortunate that illegal immigrants get taken advantage of by jerks like Butman.

2 comments:

Rob said...

Awww, the poor little ILLEGAL immigrant had his feelings hurt! Well, too bad, he shouldn't have been here in the first place.

Peter K Fallon, Ph.D. said...

You're not really my right-wing friend from NY, Howie, are you? Anyway, thanks for taking the discussion to such a high intellectual plane.