February 4, 2025 Press Release
3 days ago · February 4, 2025 (SAINT PAUL) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office has criminally charged Keith Schaefer in Stearns County District Court with one count of felony racketeering and four counts of wage theft in excess of $5,000. Schaefer owns and operates Evergreen Acres Dairy, LLC.
Head of rural Paynesville dairy facing criminal charges
2 days ago · (Paynesville MN-) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has criminally charged Keith Schaefer in Stearns County District Court with one count of felony racketeering and four counts of wage theft in excess of $5,000. Schaefer owns and operates Evergreen Acres Dairy, LLC near Paynesville.
Owner of Stearns County dairy farm criminally charged with wage …
3 days ago · Keith Lawrence Schaefer, the owner of Evergreen Acres Dairy in Paynesville, is charged with four counts of wage theft of more than $5,000 and one count of racketeering.
Evergreen Acres Dairy owner charged over wage theft, abuse …
2 days ago · Keith Lawrence Schaefer, of Richmond, faces one count of racketeering and four counts of wage theft (more than $5,000). The complaint filed in Stearns County says that Schaefer regularly ...
Minnesota dairy farm owner hit with wage theft, racketeering …
3 days ago · Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Tuesday that charges have been filed in Stearns County against Keith Schaefer, 57, of Richmond, Minnesota, who is facing four counts of wage theft and one of felony racketeering. ... Schaefer observed H.H.C. yelling at some cows, and proceeded to refer to the cows as "like [Schaefer's] children ...
Minnesota attorney general files rare criminal charges for wage …
3 days ago · According to the criminal complaint filed in Stearns County District Court, Evergreen Acres owner Keith Schaefer systematically underpaid workers, charged them for living quarters unfit for humans and threatened them with violence and deportation. Felony racketeering carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and felony wage theft carries a ...
Diary farmer in central Minnesota is accused of stealing wages …
2 days ago · (Stearns County, MN)--A Stearns County dairy farmer is being accused of stealing wages and mistreating workers from other countries. The Minnesota Attorney General's Office filed multiple charges against Keith Schaefer earlier this week. Investigators claim the owner of the farm near Paynesville ...
Minnesota Attorney General Charges Stearns County Dairy Farm …
3 days ago · (KNSI) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Tuesday that his office has filed criminal charges in Stearns County District Court against Evergreen Acres LLC owner Keith Schaefer.
Paynesville Dairy Farmer Charged With Racketeering and Wage Theft
3 days ago · Ellison has filed one count of racketeering and four counts of wage theft in excess of $5,000 against Keith Schaefer of Richmond. Schaefer owns Evergreen Acres Dairy, LLC in Paynesville.
A dairy farm is accused of stealing $3 million in wages. But was …
Jan 23, 2024 · Over the past three years, dairy farmers Keith Schaefer and his daughter Megan Hill stole at least $3 million from hundreds of their workers across central Minnesota, according to a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Keith Ellison earlier this month.