Key Figure in Extensive Georgia Human Trafficking Case Receives Sentence

In October 2021, a grand jury indicted 24 people for orchestrating a human trafficking scheme that federal prosecutors said trapped Georgia farmworkers in brutal conditions akin to “modern-day slavery.” Dubbed Operation Blooming Onion, the scheme yielded one of the country’s largest human trafficking and visa fraud investigations, according to the Department of Justice. On Monday, the central figure in…

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