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Prison Sentence for Staffing President

February 28, 2011

The president of two Chicago-area staffing firms has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for hiring illegal immigrants and ordered to forfeit funds, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announced last week.
Clinton Roy Perkins, 66, was sentenced Feb. 16 to 18 months in prison and then serve three years of supervised release. Perkins pleaded guilty in September 2010. U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall also ordered Perkins on Feb. 25 to forfeit the $465,178.
Perkins, of Wayne, Ill., was president of Anna II Inc. and Can Do It Inc., which provided workers to perform janitorial services, loading and unloading of freight packages and merchandise, and installing and removal of structures inside warehouses. The staffing companies are located in Bensenville, Ill.
In his plea, Perkins admitted to knowingly hiring more than 10 illegal aliens from Mexico as temporary workers between October 2006 and October 2007, according to ICE. Perkins did not require the workers to provide documents proving their immigration status or lawful right to work in the United States.
Together with his son-in-law, Christopher Reindl, Perkins paid the workers in cash without deducting payroll taxes or other withholdings, according to ICE. The men arranged for other employees to transport the workers to and from the worksites. Perkins and Reindl also provided their clients false partial social security numbers for the workers.
Reindl, who pleaded guilty in November, is scheduled for sentencing in March.
"We will hold employers accountable for their actions," said Gary Hartwig, special agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Chicago.