The RI Attorney General’s office announced Tuesday that three Rhode Island-based drywall installation contractors have been arraigned in Providence Superior Court on felony and misdemeanor charges following an investigation by the Attorney General and the Department of Labor and Training into allegations that they stole more than $64,000 in wages from 14 workers during the construction and renovation of RISE Prep Mayoral Academy in Woonsocket in 2018 and 2019.
In total, four contractors have been charged with wage theft and related charges stemming from an investigation into alleged wage theft during the construction and renovation of RISE Prep. Earlier this year, an East Providence contractor was charged with stealing over $93,000 in wages from workers employed at the RISE Prep construction site.
“At this point, can anyone seriously dispute that the theft of workers’ wages by unscrupulous contractors is a real and serious problem in Rhode Island? Can anyone seriously dispute that a change in the law, a change that this Office and others have repeatedly asked for, is necessary to deter conduct that causes real financial harm to working men and women and defrauds the state in the process? Yet here we are again, with prosecution alleging that employers stole $64,000 in wages from hardworking Rhode Islanders by refusing to pay the legally required wages and pocketing the difference,” said Attorney General Peter Neronha. “While we were able to fashion a felony prosecution in...
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