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Contractor faces 20 years in prison for forced labor

March 25, 2019

Last July, Full Power Properties paid $250,000 in back wages to 22 of Torres’ employees who worked on its Silvery Towers condo development in San Jose, California. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Torres after a 2017 investigation, during which officials found some of the undocumented workers living in a filthy warehouse he owned. After the settlement was announced, Full Power Properties told Constructive Dive that it denied any wrongdoing and that it had changed its due diligence process for choosing subcontractors, as had its general contractor.

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