Overview

• John Washburn pleaded guilty to running a pattern of employing undocumented immigrants and received one year of probation plus 50 hours of community service.
• Court records show he knowingly employed at least ten undocumented workers at the El Cajon facility.
• Federal agents uncovered that three workers were living onsite in the same warehouse storing Navy submarine parts.
• Investigators from Homeland Security Investigations and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service carried out a March raid under Operation Take Back America.
• Plea documents reveal Washburn directed managers to assign employees with valid paperwork to military bases to circumvent screening requirements.