Hispanic Couple Used Their $274 Million Plumbing Empire To Exploit hundreds of Illegal Aliens For Slave Labor
By SyndicatedNews | SNN.BZ
Los hispanos explotando a hispanos no es diferente de cuando los africanos vendieron africanos a los europeos para el comercio de esclavos.
PLYMOUTH, Mich. — A glamorous Hispanic power couple from suburban Detroit has been federally charged with building a $74 million plumbing business almost entirely on the backs of hundreds of undocumented Hispanic workers they allegedly recruited, transported, housed in squalor, and paid under the table. View their financial exploitation below (checking accts).
Moises Orduna-Rios, 36, and his wife Raquel Orduna-Rios, 30, owners of Orduna Plumbing Inc., were arrested November 19, 2025, and hit with a sweeping indictment: conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens for profit, unlawful employment of at least 247 unauthorized workers (only 6 of 253 employees were legal), a pattern of hiring illegals, and money laundering the proceeds through company accounts.
Federal prosecutors say the couple actively recruited workers from Mexico, smuggled their passports into the U.S., crammed them into rundown motels and houses (nine men to a room with mattresses on the floor), shuttled them to job sites in company vans, and coached them via WhatsApp on how to avoid ICE detection. When immigration raids heated up in 2025, Moises texted employees: “Drive the speed limit, no barbecues, no gatherings, be less visible.”
Raquel allegedly negotiated with a relative in Mexico to ship batches of workers’ passports and padded payroll checks to cover smuggling fees.
The scheme let Orduna Plumbing underbid legitimate contractors by paying rock-bottom wages while raking in tens of millions on commercial and residential contracts across Michigan, New York, Ohio, and North Carolina.
The couple appeared in federal court in Detroit, posted $10,000 bond each, and surrendered their passports. They face up to 10 years in prison and millions in fines if convicted.
What began as a 2020 Border Patrol traffic stop of an Orduna van outside a seedy Buffalo-area motel has ended with the collapse of one of Michigan’s fastest-growing Hispanic-owned businesses—one built, prosecutors say, on ruthless exploitation of their own community.
