An Ohio woman has been convicted in a conspiracy that required foreign laborers at a Minnesota farm to pay illegal fees and kickbacks, the StarTribune reports. Sandra Lee Bart and a co-defendant recruited mostly agricultural employers — including for the Svihel Vegetable Farm in Foley, Minn. — to hire employees from the Dominican Republic, then forced the workers to pay kickbacks and cover their own travel costs. Officials said the case was the first work-visa fraud case that US federal prosecutors charged criminally since a 2009 law change that required employers to certify under penalty of perjury that they would not collect fees from workers.