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Immokalee Bankrupts Freds Barn Drain Savings of Farm Migrants
Immokalee residents report 413 depositors mostly Haitians lost tens of thousands stowed in $10 and $20 notes at Freds Barn. The money was saved for a trailer and to bring relatives from Haiti. Officials probe illegal banking as Crawford faces money laundering charges and a crowd forms outside the shuttered store. A relief fund collects gifts for displaced workers facing high rents and uncertain futures.
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Pierre
Haiti
Rossing St. Clair
U.S
Fred
St. Clair
Emilio Petit-Homme
Jose Gonzalez
Bessie Coleman
Georgia
Carolinas
Maryland
Immonlee
Florida
Penitomme
Richard Gallops
Crawford
Gerald Crawford
North Carolina
Fred’s
State Attorney
Immokalee
Stephen Price
First Bank of Immokalee
Naples
Immokalee Relief Fund
Fla
Eluis Pierre