Four persons contracted to renovate city schools were convicted in a scheme to skirt prevailing-wage laws, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District announced May 8.
After a month-long trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, a jury found that the men plotted to pay construction workers a fraction of the money they were owed under the pay levels set by the City Comptroller’s office. For example, Bricklayers renovating a Brooklyn elementary school were paid $250 per day instead of the $580 to which they were legally entitled; Laborers received $125 daily instead of the $460 to $540 they should have received, prosecutors said in February 2013, when the charges were first unsealed.
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