BREAKING NEWS – Sacramento, California – A restaurant in California has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after it hired a priest to extract workers’ confessions, in what federal investigators are calling “the most shameless” acts of corruption an employer has taken against its staff.
The US Department of Labor said an employee testified that owner Che Garibaldi, who operates two locations of Taqueria Garibaldi in northern California, hired a fake priest to hear confessions during work hours and “get the sins out,” including asking them if they had been late for work, stolen money from the restaurant or had “bad intentions” toward their employer. The Department of Labor also stated, that Garibaldi further intimidated his employees, by having the fake priest show them a scene from the movie “The Exorcist”, warning them that if they didn’t confess, he could cause their heads and necks to be twisted 360 degrees.