Plumbing Business Employed Hundreds of Illegal Workers

As reported by the ABC affiliate WXYZ Detroit, a pair from Plymouth, MI, Moises Orduna-Rios, 36, and Raquel Orduna-Rios, 30, have been arrested and charged with (amongst different crimes) conspiracy, transporting and harboring unauthorized aliens for business benefit of personal acquire, partaking in a sample or apply of using unauthorized aliens, cash laundering and conspiracy to commit cash laundering.

Moises and Raquel operated Orduna Plumbing, Inc., a nationwide firm primarily based in Michigan with operations in New York, North Carolina, Michigan and Ohio. From the WXYZ website:

The feds say that between January 2022 and December 2024, the couple employed round 253 folks, of which solely six have been legally current and allowed to work within the US.

In accordance with the criticism, the defendants collected the passports of the employees and housed them in overcrowded homes and lodge rooms.

Between Jan. 1, 2022 and Aug. 7, 2025, feds say the plumbing firm generated round $74 million in buyer income.

The couple made an look in federal courtroom in Detroit and have been launched on situations. They’re anticipated to seem within the Western District of New York federal courtroom in December.