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This paper will examine several companies and cases charged against them for fraudulent activities. Each company’s work ethics and financial integrity is analyzed as outlined in the text referred to at the end of the document.

American Samoa Garment Factory - Venus Hardy
Pipes flailing in the thick, moist air, mixed with the smell of human flesh struck by hollow tubes. The sounds of workers screaming drowned out the machine noises and scattering about, blood spattered everywhere, on the worktables, sewing machines, and clothing. Watch in awe as the next person was struck in the face with a broken piece of pipe. Their left eyeball rolled across the floor, another person, hit, teeth shattered and each person leans over and prays that he or she is not next.
“Guards at the garment factory were armed with plastic pipes. A fence encircled the compound with razor wire on some parts. A curfew was in place. Workers were malnourished, and some seamstresses stopped having menstrual cycles.” (http://www.seattlepi.nwsource.com 2005 retrieved February 15, 2008) “The women unknowingly participated in a $7 billion to $10 billion global industry of murky migration, forced labor and debt bondage.” (http://www.seattlepi.nwsource.com 2003 retrieved February 15, 2008) The concentration-like quarters crammed 36 people to a poorly ventilated, humid hallway lined by tiny bunk beds with half-inch mattresses. Bath facilities offered no privacy and broken toilets and the swimming pool was not filled with water, but garbage and rancid putrid green slime. (www.hawaiireporter.com 2002 retrieved February 15, 2008)
These are just some of the working conditions in the America Samoa Garment Factory owned by Kil Soo Lee. This factory was one of the main production companies that manufactured clothing for retailers such as Target, Sears and JC Penny’s. The Vietnamese workers had to pay $8,000 to the Vietnamese Government Labor Export Offices for the opportunity and papers...