Restaurant pays $140k for hiring fake priest to extract worker confessions.
A restaurant in California, Taqueria Garibaldi, has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after it hired a fake priest to extract workers’ confessions, in what federal investigators are calling “the most shameless” acts of corruption an employer has taken against its staff. The restaurant also denied employees overtime pay, managers were paid bonuses from the employee tip pool and some employees faced “adverse immigration consequences” for cooperating with investigators.