Correspondence
Email sent to Mike Marano.
The email said: "I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and shipments consigned to 'Mike Marano JC Murray Corp.'
Trade records show shipments of seafood from the Chinese company Rongcheng Haibo were consigned to 'Mike Marano JC Murray Corp.' in 2021 and 2022. Rongcheng Haibo has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program.
The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor across the country via state-sanctioned employment schemes which use coercive methods in worker enrollment. The U.S. has prohibited the importation of goods produced from state-imposed forced labor.
Do you or JC Murray Corp. have any comment or statement to make in light of the above information? Please respond to this email by close of business June 20, 2023."