The pizza shop owner faces one charge of forced labor but allegedly victimized at least seven workers, according to court documents. A federal judge cited the defendant's “history of violence and threats' and ordered that he be held without bail.
who were not legally in the U.S. has been ordered held without bail by a magistrate judge who cited the defendant's “history of violence and threats.”
Papantoniadis, 47, who also goes by Steve, faces one charge of forced labor but allegedly victimized at least seven employees, according to court documents. Prosecutors allege he hired people in the U.S. illegally, made them work long hours, underpaid them, verbally and physically abused them, and threatened to inform immigration authorities or police if they complained. He hit one worker in the mouth, breaking some teeth, and on another occasion kicked that worker in the genitals so hard that the man needed surgery, prosecutors said.
Carmine Lepore, Papantoniadis’s lawyer, said many of the allegations are years old and were fabricated by disgruntled employees who had “huge incentive” to lie because they are being allowed to remain in the U.S. during the investigation.
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