Owner of Suburban Chicago Construction Company Helped Smuggle Workers to US Through Romanian Kingpin: Officials – NBC Chicago

The owner of a Lincolnwood construction company is charged with conspiring to smuggle Romanians into the United States to work for him.

Tudor Deaconu, owner of TDA Construction Inc., arranged for Canadian-based smugglers from Romania to bring a married couple, their child and another adult to the United States without the proper entry visas, according to an indictment unsealed last month.

Deaconu, a Romanian national and naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded not guilty Wednesday during an arraignment in federal court.

According to the indictment . . .