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Nightclub accused of employing minor, immigration fraud
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Posted on Dec 23 2004
The Attorney General’s Office filed multiple charges against a businessman and his nightclub for employing illegal aliens and exploiting at least one minor who worked as exotic dancer.
Eric O’Malley, the CNMI’s immigration enforcement attorney, filed with the Superior Court 19 criminal counts against 33-year-old Takayuki Umeda and Japan Enterprises Corp., which does business as Club Micronesia.
O’Malley said the nightclub employed at least one underaged girl from June to July 2004 and let her “engage in prohibited conduct.”
The prosecutor said the defendants facilitated the girl’s entry from Manila, the Philippines, to Saipan through forged documents. He accused the defendants of harboring the girl despite knowing that she was staying in the Commonwealth illegally.
He said the defendants knowingly subscribed as true a false statement in applying for the girl’s nonresident worker’s permit. He said the defendants made the girl subscribe as true alleged false statements on these documents.
O’Malley charged the defendants with unlawful exploitation of a minor, and three counts each of employment of an illegal alien, harboring of an illegal alien, immigration fraud, solicitation, conspiracy, and aiding, abetting and encouraging illegal entry.
The charges also pertain to Club Micronesia’s unlawful employment of two other workers from June to July.
