US court summons company owner

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Non payment of salaries to Indian employees

Feburary 29, 2008

John Pickle, owner of John Pickle Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hired 52 welders and fitters from India with promise of good salaries, accommodation, food and green cards. However, on arrival in the US, their passports were taken, given makeshift shanty places to sleep, rationed limited amount of food and were paid $2-$3 per hour. They however managed to leave the factory and filed lawsuit in 2003. In 2006, the judge found the John Pickle Company guilty of fraud, false imprisonment and civil rights violations and ordered the owner to pay compensation of $1.3 million.

John Pickle closed the company, transferred the assets to relatives and never paid any part of the award to the plaintiffs. Last October, the plaintiff's attorney asked the judge to void all transfers of properties to third parties and place a lien against properties and assets until the judgement is satisfied.

In the meantime, many of the victims succeeded in getting T visas which is given to the victims of human trafficking.

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