| Item: | Israeli Owner of Van Line Fined $1.5 Million, Ordered to 5 1/2 Years in Prison | | Date: | April 12, 2000 | | Type: | Press Release | | Summary: | Yaron Tishby, president and owner of All American Van Lines of Pembroke Park, FL, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Miami to 5 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution. He was ordered to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation hearings following his sentence. Tishby pleaded guilty to violating Federal transportation-tariff laws, hiring illegal aliens, and illegally possessing a firearm. Tishby induced customers with low estimates and then grossly inflated costs of moves after customers’ household goods were in the company’s possession. |
| Page: | http://www.dot.gov/affairs/1999/oig1499.htm | |
