The owners of California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers, along with $70,000 in civil penalties, for housing workers in cramped, substandard conditions.
Workers were found living in cramped cargo containers, garages, dilapidated trailers with filthy mattresses, and a moldy greenhouse infested with insects and trash, prompting federal investigators' intervention.
The farmworker responsible for the shootings, Chunli Zhao, faced charges for killing seven people and wounding another, with the shootings shocking the small coastal community of Half Moon Bay.
Federal officials uncovered that the owners of the farms, Xianmin Guan, Liming Zhu, and Grace Tung, illegally deducted money from workers' pay for providing unacceptable housing conditions.
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