State Hires Back Company who Employed Illegal Immigrants

State Hires Back Company who Employed Illegal Immigrants

Date: September 30, 2010
By: Allison Blood
State Capitol Bureau

Intro: 
Sam's Janitorial Service, formerly dismissed from a janitorial contract for hiring illegal immigrants is rehired to work in Jefferson City, but under a new name. Allison Blood has more from the Capitol.
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Wrap: J-C Cleaners begins a contract with three government owned buildings October first, and owner Kofi Asamoah says he has no affiliation to the company that saw two dozen of it's people rounded up in a 2007 immigration sting.

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Description: "You should go in there and every building I got, and you see every building Sam's got and you see it's two totally different companies owned by two totally different people,"

But Asamoah shares an address with the owner of Sam's Janitorial Service, as seen on their company registration papers.

The state also awarded Sam's Janitorial Service a contract for two different state-owned buildings.

From Jefferson City, I'm Allison Blood.    


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