“Frosty Treats,” a Russian company operating ice-cream trucks near Kansas City, Missouri, promised a group of college students from the Ukraine the opportunity to earn salaries between $10,000 and $15,000 for the summer in the United States. Once in the United States, however, the students were forced to work 13 hours a day, seven days a week, for less than minimum wage. Defendants restricted the students' access to telephone and mail communication. On September 10, 2007, David Carslake pled guilty to obstruction of mail; Frosty Treats entered a separate settlement agreement, agreeing to pay more than $47,555 in restitution to the six students, and to stop recruiting foreign students at all of its U.S. locations for the next two years. Several of the other defendants remain at large.
1st Instance:
Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Location: Missouri
Date of decision: 2009
Reference: Docket Number: 06-CR-00317
Carslake pled guilty to the charge of obstruction of mail.
18 U.S.C. § 2 and 18 U.S.C. § 1589
18 U.S.C. § 1701
18 U.S.C. § 1592
18 U.S.C.§ 1546(a)
United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
http://www.law.umich.edu/CLINICAL/HUTRAFFICCASES/Pages/CaseDisp.aspx?caseID=392
News article: http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2006/09/18/daily25.html?page=all
Other indicted defendants are D.H.M., 45, and J.S.G., 45, all residents of Kansas City; and E.S.F., 20, and V.A.T., 21, both citizens of Russia. The Russian citizens helped recruit the students to the US.