Politics & Government
Sentencing Postponed for French Gourmet Owner
The defendant admitted to repeated acts of re-hiring undocumented workers, even after the company received "no-match" letters from the Social Security Administration notifying them that the employees' names did not match the Social Security numbers.
Sentencing was postponed on Monday until Thursday for a Pacific Beach bakery owner who hired illegal aliens for several years.
Michael Malecot, owner and president of The French Gourmet Inc., pleaded guilty Oct. 13 to a misdemeanor charge related to his practice of hiring and employing undocumented workers, which he had been doing since 2003 even though he was fined by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the 1990s for hiring illegal aliens. The French Gourmet is a restaurant, bakery and catering business on Turquoise Street in North Pacific Beach.
–City News Service
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