UPDATE: Maui Pineapple Co. Dragged Into Human Trafficking Story

In its May-June edition story alleging human trafficking by labor-recruiting company Global Horizons, Mother Jones reports that the now-defunct Maui Pineapple Co. was one of many agricultural companies that used the inexpensive migrant laborers.

Reporter John Bowe wrote that workers told him that one Global Horizons agent on Maui "was in the habit of carrying a knife, a gun, or a baseball bat, and of threatening workers with 'deportation' if they didn't behave or meet their quotas" and that one worker was beaten.

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