lt >> aan: decoster did get out. he stopped running his plants, and instead leased them to other companies. the ohio operation was leased to trillium farms, which kept mostd ofoster's employees. by 2014, it was one of the five laest in the country, prucing ten million eggs a day. this is where the trafficks forced the guatemalan teens to work off their debts. >> (speaking spanish): >> altan: this man s worked with the teens at trillium. >> (speaking spanish): >> altan: in october 2014, after four months at tllium, one of the teens managed to call his uncle in florida. the uncle agreed to talk to us, but was afraid to show his face on camera. >> speaking spanish): >> one day i received a phone call. there was a gentleman that had nephew that had been smuggled into the country from guatemala, and was being kept to work against his will in ohio. and within 24 hours, i had a conference call from the head of the fbi, hsi, and th attorney's office in that region. >> altan: two months later, federal and local law enforcemen

but decoster did no maintenance on them. the people were crammed into these littlerailers, like, eight guys in one trailer on broken bunk beds. there was raw sewage on the ground. the plumbing and the pipes were broken. it was nasty. a it waswful. >> we will not tolerate these abuses of working people in the united states.ed the more i leabout jack decoster, the angrier i got. he was very much the most egregious serial violator that i had ever seen. and the conditions on his farms for migrant workers were amongea the worst hops i had, i had ever come across. t >> altan: in 1997,he department of labor fi decoster $2 million for violations at his facities in maine. but it didn't stop there. for years, authorities continued to fine decoster for abuses against his workers. >> they couldn't escape, really. they couldn't leave. once they were there, they were stuck. today we call it trafficking. but back then it was just smuggling people in and treating them like slaves. >> as far as mistreating these workers here, i don't... i do