The federal prosecutors who handled the aborted forced labor prosecution of Alec and Mike Sou of Aloun Farms won’t be involved in the human trafficking case against Global Horizons Manpower.

Robert Moossy Jr., principal deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, notified the federal court this week that he is entering the Global Horizons case to represent the prosecution.

Without elaborating, he said civil rights trial attorneys Susan French and Kevonne Small of the Justice Department and Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Cushman are "no longer representing the United States in this matter."

U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni also notified the court that she is entering the case.

The Aloun Farms and Global Horizons cases were being handled by the same prosecutors in the Civil Rights Division.

Federal prosecutors asked for a dismissal of all charges against the Sous on Aug. 3 at the start of the fourth day of their scheduled weeks-long jury trial.

The Sous had been charged with illegally bringing in and forcing 44 Thai laborers to work at the brothers’ Kapolei farm.

The dismissal request, which was granted by Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway, came two days after French acknowledged she misstated the law about recruitment fees before a federal grand jury and asked to be excused from the case for health reasons.

Global Horizons’ officers and employees are scheduled to go on trial next year on charges of exploiting about 600 Thai workers.