PHOENIX (CBS 5) -
The former owner of a chain of metro Phoenix car washes accused of immigration fraud in its hiring practices is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his guilty plea to a felony charge of identity fraud.
Prosecutors are asking that Daniel Lewis Hendon, the former owner of Danny's Family Car Wash, go to prison.
Hendon's lawyer is seeking a sentence of probation, home confinement and community service.
Hendon was implicated in the scheme by 14 current or former managers who have pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Some lower-level managers said that at least one higher-up within Danny's instructed them to rehire workers who had to be fired after a federal audit found nearly half of the company's 1,900-person workforce were people who weren't authorized to work in the country.
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