'One by One,' Trafficking Suspects Plead Guilty, Victims' Lawyer Says

Before a federal judge in Honolulu this week, a second defendant pleaded guilty in a human trafficking case that the FBI are calling the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

Shane Germann is the second of eight people charged with conspiring to keep hundreds of Thai immigrants as indentured laborers on farms in Hawaii and Seattle.

Germann was the Hawaii supervisor for Global Horizons, a Los Angeles-based labor recruiting firm. The company's former operations manager, Bruce Schwartz, pleaded guilty in February.

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