An Israeli has been arrested in the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history

Six recruiters were accused of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history. The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and two Thailand-based recruiters. It said the recruiters lured the workers with false promises of lucrative jobs, then confiscated their passports, failed to honor their employment contracts and threatened to deport them. Israeli national and Global Horizons CEO Mordechai Orian, 45, has been charged with leading the conspiracy.