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The investigation

PNJ Services is the third compliance-positive counterexample in this investigation. PNJ's recruiting posts carry "Work authorization in the US is mandatory!" as an explicit requirement, reposted across Florida, Upstate NY tiger-team, and Northeast AT&T markets — a compliance standard enforced repeatedly across multiple postings, multiple markets, and multiple time periods. A PNJ Tiger Team recruiting post for AT&T troubleshooting lists, as hard requirements: "MANDATORY WORK AUTHORIZATION" (capitalized in the original), driver's license, TTT1, all certifications present, and AT&T equipment experience. Additional postings repeat: "Legal status in the US (Work authorization)".

PNJ's operational footprint covers AT&T work in Northeast and BAWA markets, seeking foremen, troubleshoot technicians, and general crew, with TTT1 listed as preferred rather than required for entry positions. Public postings cover broad AT&T and T-Mobile scope: Nokia-to-Ericsson swaps on BAWA market, troubleshooting tickets in Miami, tiger-team work in Upstate NY, general maintenance in Virginia and West Virginia, with a Philadelphia-area operational footprint. PNJ Services is included on this census for the same reason as the other compliance-positive operators documented here — it documents that the compliance-positive posture is commercially viable in the same market where the scheme operates at the scale documented everywhere else in this investigation. Six companies, six compliance-positive postures stated publicly and repeatedly. The scheme documented across the other thirty-two is not a market necessity. It is a business decision that each operator has made individually.

// findings

5 findings on this card

Each finding is a single corpus message (or a short cluster) with a verbatim quote, severity tag, and provenance label. Click any finding to view the source message and context window. Speaker identifiers below are Telegram name (the handle the user chose for themselves on Telegram — can be a real name, a single letter, an emoji, or anything else they set) plus Telegram UID (the numeric account identifier).

m0240 MEDIUM JOB_POSTING_LEGIT PROVEN

Компания PNJ Services приглашает специалистов для работы на вышках сотовой связи в регионе Northeast Market

PNJ Services invites specialists to work on cell towers in the Northeast Market

source: CHAT · msgs 29759-37607 (3) · Telegram name: Evgeniy Vasilevskiy · uid 624202406
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m0241 MEDIUM JOB_POSTING_LEGIT PROVEN

PNJ Services расширяет команду и ищет специалистов с опытом работы на проектах T-Mobile

PNJ Services is expanding the team and looking for specialists with experience on T-Mobile projects

source: CHAT · msgs 44316-50738 (6) · Telegram name: Evgeniy Vasilevskiy · uid 624202406
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m0242 MEDIUM JOB_POSTING_LEGIT PROVEN

Наличие разрешения на работу в США обязательно!

Work authorization in the US is mandatory!

source: CHAT · msgs 47201-53980 (6) · Telegram name: Evgeniy Vasilevskiy · uid 624202406
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m0350 LOW JOB_POSTING_LEGIT PROVEN

❗️Название компании: PNJ SERVICES 📌Кого ищем: Climber for the Tiger Team - ATT Troubleshooting. 📌Требования к кандидатам: -ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНОЕ НАЛИЧИЕ РАЗРЕШЕНИЯ НА РАБОТУ! -Drivers license -TTT1 must have -Наличие всех сертификатов. -Опыт работы с ATT оборудованием. 📌Условия работы: Все подробности по указанному ниже номеру телефона. Есть возможность работать по выходным. 📍Локация работы: Florida ☎️Контакты для связи: (267) 495-6761

❗️Company name: PNJ SERVICES. 📌 Looking for: Climber for the Tiger Team — ATT Troubleshooting. 📌 Requirements: — MANDATORY WORK AUTHORIZATION! — Driver's license — TTT1 must have — All certifications present — Experience with AT&T equipment. 📌 Conditions: All details by the phone below. Weekend work possible. 📍 Location: Florida. ☎️ Contact: (267) 495-6761.

Tagged as: COMPLIANCE_POSITIVE

source: CHAT · msg 53980 · Telegram name: Evgeniy Vasilevskiy · uid 624202406 · role: PNJ posting (policy-hardening)
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m0351 → ROSTTEC JOB_POSTING_LEGIT
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The Shadow Zone Investigation documents labor violations in U.S. wireless tower construction — including wage theft, undocumented-labor schemes, fraudulent safety certifications, child labor, and immigration coercion. 339 documented findings across 93 named subcontractors and 384 individuals. Anonymous investigation team.

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