Federal prosecutors were dealt another major setback on Wednesday after a federal magistrate denied their request for a nine-month continuance in what government officials have called the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history. “I think nine months is really
Federal prosecutors were dealt another major setback on Wednesday after a federal magistrate denied their request for a nine-month continuance in what government officials have called the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history.
“I think nine months is really pushing the envelope in a case like this,” said U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi.
Prosecutors allege that eight people associated with Global Horizons, a Los Angeles-based labor recruiting firm, conspired to keep more than 600 Thai workers as indentured laborers on farms in Hawai‘i, Washington and other states.
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