879, 130 L.Ed.2d 852 (1995).)   In 1985, after moving to Warsaw, Indiana, where Royalite's plant is located, Lozano was arrested on federal felony cocaine charges.  He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to five years in prison, and spent 42 months in the federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky.  In prison, Lozano participated in several drug-treatment programs, and he turned to religion, becoming a born-again Christian.  After he was released from prison, he became an active anti-drug and anti-gang advocate, devoting particular efforts to warning religious youth groups about the evils of drugs.


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Lozano's first introduction to Royalite came in 1992 through David Antu, a member of Warsaw's Spanish-speaking community who knew Royalite's then-manager of human resources, Joseph Bell.  Antu told Bell that Lozano was ato Lozano that Royalite ran criminal records checks, verified previous employment information, and conducted drug screening tests on all applicants.  He promised Lozano he would call when that process was complete.


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Apparently unbeknownst to Lozano, Bell never conducted the criminal records check.  Lozano was hired on July 6, 1992, and as we noted above, he was a model employee in Royalite's eyes until the union campaign started.  Importantly for present purposes, the ALJ found that Lozano's criminal past was well known at the plant, both among the rank-and-file and among supervisors.  For example, Lozano testified that he told Supervisor Michael DeWald that he had spent time in prison, and why.  DeWald alluded to Lozano's "trouble" in front of another employee, Ralph Crawford.  DeWald