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Popular Novi restaurant Kim's Garden closes after owner pleads guilty

Posted at 11:38 AM, Feb 20, 2017
and last updated 2017-02-20 12:23:21-05

Popular Novi restaurant Kim's Garden closed this weekend after the owner and his wife pleaded guilty to charges of harboring undocumented immigrants.

We're told the restaurant closed and all of the assets are being sold off by Biddergy.

Roger Tam, 55, and his wife, Ada Lei, 48, were charged with harboring undocumented immigrants and plead guilty to those charges.

Five Mexican nationals were killed in a house fire on Jan. 31, 2016. They were living in Tam's basement and couldn't escape after the fire started.

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We're told Tam and Lei provided the five men with housing and transportation to an from Kim's Garden as a condition of employment.