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Enslaved By The Rich
Topic Started: Mar 2 2012, 06:16 AM (1,137 Views)
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Mansion servant enslaved by uber-rich New York family for nearly six years

A wealthy New York woman is facing criminal charges after being accused of keeping an illegal immigrant as an indentured servant and forcing her to live in a closet for nearly six years.

Documents posted on the Smoking Gun allege that Annie George, 39, and her now-deceased husband, Mathai Kolath George, hired an illegal immigrant from the Indian state of Kerala. The immigrant, identified only as "V.M.," was promised about $1,000 a month in wages to live in the family's 34-room, 30,000-square-foot home, known as Llenroc mansion, which houses a helicopter pad, 15 fireplaces, marble flooring, 24-karat gold gilded ceilings and a glass elevator. V.M. was tasked with taking care of the Georges' four young children, along with performing household duties in the mansion located about 20 miles north of Albany.

New York's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Even if V.M. had been allowed to leave the residence at the end of a regular 40-hour workweek, she would have been entitled to a minimum, pretax income of $290 per week, or $1,160 per month.

Instead, the "forced labor situation" (as described in the court papers) was even worse than the already-below minimum wage offer of $1,000 month. V.M. received 85 cents an hour, working 17-hour days, seven days a week, over the 67 months she was kept inside the George residence.

All told, V.M. received only about $29,000 over the five and a half years she was forced to work for the George family.

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The Smoking Gun reports that immigration agents received a tip from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center last year and removed V.M. from the George's property. The U.S. Department of Labor conducted its own investigation and says V.M. is entitled to $206,000 in back wages. She was also allegedly denied health benefits, sick days or any personal time off from her labors.


Annie George, whose husband died in a plane crash in 2009, reportedly called V.M.'s son three times, suggesting he "tell his mother to tell authorities that she was a relative of George's family and was only staying at George's house as a guest." However, V.M.'s son recorded the calls, which included a plea from Annie George, "If she says anything about working, it would become a big crime. They'll start adding up all the taxes and everything, for all the time."

According to the Smoking Gun documents, the George estate had been put up for sale for a reported $30 million.

Annie George appeared in court on Wednesday before a federal magistrate, facing charges of encouraging and inducing an illegal alien to reside in the U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mansion-servant-enslaved-uber-rich-york-family-six-201707220.html
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Doctor Magnus Warlock
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Some folks really aint sh!t.

Who says slavery is a thing of the past?
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sam_wilson
Mar 2 2012, 09:13 AM
Some folks really aint sh!t.

Who says slavery is a thing of the past?
Quite right, bro. The high minded attitudes of the rich are well engrained.
Edited by Zechariah, Mar 2 2012, 09:17 AM.
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Why go to China when you can bring them here.
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The best stories are of rich White Republicans who claim that illegal immigrants should be kicked out of America but surprisingly turn an eye to their own illegal immigrant servants because, hey, they're cheap. I read a book called Searching for Whitopia. Same scenario. Middle-class Whites wanted to live in areas without minorities yet some of them had (illegal) Mexican immigrants who lived in a small area of these Whitopia's and basically did all the house and yard work.

Slavery by any other name...
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cisslybee2012
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It isn't what the article is stating.

Thing is,

Being a slave in a mansion and sleeping in a room sized closet was apparently a better deal for that immigrant than being in his or her own circumstances in their homeland.

It had to be better or the immigrant would never have went with it.

I saw a TV documentary a few years ago about an immigrant who was found dead at an airport. She got jacked by a cabbie at the airport and thrown out of his cab, and she was stuck there and where she perished. But she had a return ticket in her pocket to go back home. She decided to die of exposure in an airport than to go back home apparently because dying in the airport was better than her life at home.

So there's always two sides to everything. We can't just focus on the rich couple who took advantage of the immigrant when their offering was better than what the immigrant had to begin with.

Just as blacks didn't agree to be European slaves for hundreds of years because what they had in Africa was better. They agreed to it because what they had in Africa was worse.

Yall really need to grow and stop looking at everything from one side when everything that exist consist of two sides. Problems can never be solved if we're only looking at one side of anything.

And like it or not,

The slave is every bit as wrong as the slave master to agree to be a slave. And by natural law, the slave has to be abused because it is wrong to be a slave. If the Europeans weren't abusive to us, then we would never have had any reason to ever stop wanting to be slaves. So it's ridiculous to point the finger at a slave master for being abusive to a fool when they both are equally in the wrong.
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I've heard some crazy shit before, but this ranks near the top.
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zecharia
Mar 2 2012, 11:02 AM
I've heard some crazy shit before, but this ranks near the top.
She seems to be short of a few brain cells.
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Mar 2 2012, 11:06 AM
zecharia
Mar 2 2012, 11:02 AM
I've heard some crazy shit before, but this ranks near the top.
She seems to be short of a few brain cells.
She may be, or maybe just a scared immigrant. Unless you're talking about the nutty mistress.
Edited by Zechariah, Mar 2 2012, 11:10 AM.
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cisslybee2012
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zecharia
Mar 2 2012, 11:02 AM
I've heard some crazy shit before, but this ranks near the top.
How so?
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