Ex-Woburn Restaurant Worker Pleads Guilty To Providing False Documents

BOSTON, MA — A former employee of a Woburn Brazilian restaurant pleaded guilty in federal court this week to providing false identification documents to Brazilian employees who lacked work authorization, the U.S. District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts has announced.

Marcos Chacon Gil, 39, a Salvadoran national, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of transferring false identification documents.

The charge provides for a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. Chacon Gil is scheduled to be sentenced on June 17.

Chacon Gil was a former employee at the restaurant Taste of Brazil/Tudo Na Brasa. In April, the father and son who owned the restaurant —Jesse James Moraes and Hugo Giovanni Moraes — and a Brazilian relative were charged in federal court with forced labor conspiracy after allegedly conspiring to smuggle migrants into the U.S. to work at the restaurant.

According to federal authorities, Chacon Gil worked at the restaurant for three years beginning in 2014.

Court documents suggest that beginning in 2018, Chacon Gil provided false identification documents to Brazilian employees of the restaurant in order for the employees to secure work authorization.

Authorities said that on Feb. 20, 2020, Chacon Gil met with an employee and provided that employee with a fake green card and a fake social security card.