Sweatshop In Queens Produced Clothes For Macy's, the Gap, Banana Republic, Urban Apparel, and Victor

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Inspectors say the company cheated its workers out of more than $5 million in pay;. The company instructed instructed workers to lie to state inspectors;. Employees were required to work 6 and 7 day workweeks, and  sometimes for up to 120 days at a time;. Employees weren't paid  overtime or minimum wage. The company kept two sets of timecards to fake-out inspectors.

Macy's says they're "very concerned" about the case and are investigating it, the Gap says they're cooperating with authorities, and Victoria's Secret says they have a "zero tolerance policy" for factories that are unwilling to work with them to achieve compliance.

This makes me wonder why any of these companies never investigated the factory personally- in the first place.  It's not like it was in some remote part of the world. Even if it was, these companies make billions of dollars, they can't spend a few to investigate?