Boise, ID – A federal grand jury in Boise returned an indictment charging Ernesto Garibay Garza, 61, of Texas, with wire fraud, extortion, and filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. According to the indictment, Garza worked as a farm foreman in Idaho at least between 2005 and 2019, during which time he used H-2A agricultural workers, who lawfully enter the United States to perform agricultural labor or services on a temporary or seasonal basis, to further a scheme to defraud the farm and he also extorted the H-2A agricultural workers for annual cash payments.

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