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...July 25 when immigration agents descended on Garcia Labor Company Inc., a temporary service company that provides workers to sort freight for ABX Air, it put on notice contractors that knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants for larger companies. Maximino Garcia, president and owner of the company, was charged with 40 counts of knowingly employing unauthorized workers, including conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized $12 million in cash and property from Garcia, who stands to lose it if found guilty. "Criminal indictments like the one unsealed today are the future of worksite enforcement," said Julie Myers, assistant...
Gift of Foresight. Just when Prohibition gripped the U.S., Jenkins plunged into the sugar and alcohol business. Sometimes he bought in his own name, other times in cooperation with such men as Maximino Avila Camacho, the brother of onetime (1940-46) President Manuel Avila Camacho. When the great expropriator, President Lázaro Cárdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to Cÿrdenas as a gift. Later Jenkins told a friend, "I came out on top. I still get my sugar from...
Razor Blades & Babies. He was visiting Mexico in 1942 when the U.S. and Britain put him on their economic black list (TIME, June 29, 1942). This shut him off from his Swedish empire, but he fortunately made an influential new friend, the late Maximino Avila Camacho, enormously rich and powerful brother of then-President Manuel Avila Camacho. Wenner-Gren also had some spare change with him, $1 or $2 million. With Maximino's help he put the money to work...
Avila Camacho made Aléman Secretary of Gobernacidn (Government), the key Cabinet post. But Aléman was not the ranking minister. That was the job of Maximino Avila Camacho, the President's rich, powerful brother, who as Minister of Communications was the big shot and profited to the scandal of all. Maximino hated Aléman, but he did not live long enough to hurt him. One day Maximino dedicated a new health center, went home and died...
...Mexico City, Cinemactor Jorge Veéez and his wife (by civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis...