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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that the court case of Lee Gil-su, the owner of a forced-labor garment factory in American Samoa, was the biggest human trafficking case that the U.S. Justice Department has ever broken.
While running the Daewoosa Samoa garment factory, Lee forced women, mostly from Vietnam and China, to work for very low incomes. The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has prosecuted several cases related to the matter, among which 83 cases were convicted. Now, the ministry has opened an investigation into 142 charges.
Judge Susan Oki Mollway at the federal courthouse in Honolulu was to sentence Lee on Friday, but ordered a delay when Lee's attorney said he was not able to communicate with Lee.
(Ju Yong-jung, midway@chosun.com )
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