Restaurant Owners Used Fake Priest to Interrogate Workers, Stiffed Them on Pay

California restaurant owners hired someone posing as a priest to extract "confessions" from employees about workplace "sins."
The owners of Taqueria Garibaldi restaurants denied workers overtime pay and used pooled tips to pay managers illegally.
The fake priest asked workers whether they were loyal to the owner and had ever stolen from him.
Management threatened employees with "adverse immigration consequences" and retaliation for cooperating with investigators.
The company will pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees as part of a settlement with the Labor Department.