United States Attorney May Beth Buchanan announced today, December 17, 2001, that Yee Bun Cheung, To Tat Yeung and Oriental Buffet, Inc., d/b/a Oriental Super Buffet, have been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to two years probation on their conviction of hiring or recruiting unauthorized aliens. Cheung and Yeung were also ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $30,000.00 each. Oriental Buffet, Inc. was fined $10,000.

United States District Judge Robert J. Gindrich imposed the sentence on Cheung, age 36, of 33A McKnight Circle, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237; Yeung, age 49, of 57-23 Little Neck Parkway, New York, New York 11362, and the Oriental Buffet, Inc., 481 McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237.

According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Tina Oberdorf Miller, from July 2000 to April 17, 2001, Cheung, Yeung and the Oriental Super Buffet Restaurant engaged in a pattern and practice of employing unauthorized aliens at the restaurant, which is located in the North Hills section of Pittsburgh. Cheung and Yeung housed the illegal workers in a house on Perrysville Avenue in the Brighton Heights section of Pittsburgh.

Ms. Buchanan commended Special Agent Erin Byrne of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and Special Agent Tracy Hapeman of the Department of Labor for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Cheung, Yeung and the Oriental Buffet Restaurant.