SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of San Mateo County against Eaton & Associates for billing taxpayers for work they never completed.
“Patricia and John Eaton ripped off San Mateo County taxpayers to the tune of $2 million during the pandemic for work they never performed. This lawsuit seeks to return those funds to the public treasury where they belong.”
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Eaton & Associates, a San Mateo-based information technology contractor, has collected over $28 million in government contracts since 2013. The lawsuit alleges that approximately $2 million of those dollars were paid for a fiber-optic cable project. San Mateo County hired Eaton & Associates to perform the project from 2018 to 2022, which would have connected buildings in South San Francisco, San Mateo, Half Moon Bay, Daly City, and Pacifica with high-speed fiber-optic cable. The network would have reduced operational costs for the County and increased internet speeds for the taxpayers.
The lawsuit alleges that Eaton & Associates billed the County over $1.3 million for the project. The County paid those invoices, believing that Eaton would not have submitted the invoices if they had not completed the work. The County also paid another $500,000 of monthly invoices for maintenance of the fiber-optic network that didn’t exist. Including the initial payment to Eaton & Associates, the County paid them over $2 million for the...
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