The tip to Florida state investigators that led to the arrest of 105 workers at a Naples, Florida, fruit and vegetable packing plant earlier this month came from a claimants' attorney who thought he was providing investigators with information on employer fraud, according to records and interviews in the case.
The raid on Fruit Dynamics on July 16 has sparked a call by an immigration group to drop the charges. Florida Workers' Advocates, which represents claimants' attorneys, says the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud misused a section of Florida Statute 440, the workers' co...
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