Gavin Bade

And it's union.

This is UAW.

They've got good pay.

They've got good benefits.

They've got good time off.

And they're proud of their work.

You know, they're really, really proud of what they do.

So you've got a ready-made industrial site.

You have a state that really wants the investment that's going to give you tax breaks to make an investment here.

And you have a sector that, from their perspective, is ripe for disruption.

They thought they could do well here, and they were right.

Everyone was all in on this, and it was, you know, on paper, it looked like a great idea.

And if you ask people who have jobs there, obviously they like getting paid, they like having a job.

And so there was a lot to be gained by Fuyao coming to this area, for sure.

Probably, you know, 2018, 2019, there started to be concerns from what I can tell.

But the federal investigation in this matter dates back to 2019, where the feds, and this is, you know, DHS, the Homeland Security Investigation Arm, they start tracking the workers who are coming to this plant.

Some people around Dayton who were seeing some curious things about the Fuyao factory and its labor force, right?

Dozens of workers, presumably of Chinese origin, stuffed into, you know,

what the federal complaint calls family-style hotels.

They're coming and going all hours of the day and night.