In full transparency, the following is a press release from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office submitted to SOURCE media.
BOSTON – A Framingham construction company and its owners will pay more than $540,000 in restitution and penalties over allegations that they failed to pay prevailing wages to employees who worked on public projects at the Middleborough and Westport police stations and submitted false payroll records to the municipalities, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today, December 20.
Separately, the AG’s Office sued the construction management firm in charge of overseeing the work for facilitating the submission of false documents to the municipalities to conceal the fact that workers were not paid properly.
The construction company, Superior Carpentry, Inc., and its President, Fernando Barroso, and Vice President, Felipe Drumond, were issued five citations by the AG’s Office for failing to pay the prevailing wage, not submitting true and accurate payroll records, failing to submit payroll records, falsifying records, and failing to keep true and accurate payroll records.
In a separate complaint, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, the AG’s Office alleges that BPI Construction Management, Inc. (BPI) violated the Massachusetts False Claims Act when it knowingly facilitated the submittal of fraudulent payroll records to the municipalities falsely certifying that workers on the projects were paid the prevailing wage. BPI, as a higher-level contractor,...
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