Stole from his employees and defrauded the state: A contractor accused of fraudulent 2 million!
Earl Thompson's license to engage in construction was revoked from him, so he persuaded his wife and another friend to start a business under their name when he was the one who actually did the work. If that wasn’t enough, he was charged with withholding $ 633 in wages while his employees had a hard time finishing the month; After pleading guilty, the court decided to aggravate him and send him to 10 years in prison.
A construction contractor will spend the next ten years behind bars after being convicted of all of the serious charges he was charged with, including insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit a crime, theft of wages, providing false testimony and theft.
According to a statement from the Yulo District Attorney's Office (southwest and northwest Sacramento), Earl Thompson, a 56-year-old Colorado resident, was hired as the main contractor for a huge project: building dormitories for students at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Since he was denied a license to work in the field in California, he persuaded his wife and another friend to start a new business under their name when he was the one who would actually perform the work.
"Thompson used this business to obtain the contract for the Davis project. During construction, he stole $ 633,199.55 from employees by withholding wages and even defrauded the Workers' Comp fund of $ 359,011.43. To conceal his criminal acts, he gave false testimony. "In official affidavits that he signed and caused damage in excess of $ 2 million," the prosecutor's office said.
Jennifer McKhee, the district attorney's deputy who had faith in the case, said after the conviction: "For the six years it took to end the lawsuit, the defense filed repeated requests in court claiming the defendant was unfit to stand trial. This led to repeated dismissals, until finally bihm "He ruled that he could be prosecuted," she said.
Last July, Thompson pleaded guilty in the hope that the court would allow him to receive a probation sentence. But last week, the court noted his criminal record (convicted of tax evasion) along with the severity of the offenses in the current indictment as a reason to impose a ten-year sentence on him. Not only did he steal the money from his employees - who had a hard time finishing the month - he prevented other law-abiding contractors from getting the construction contract from UC Davis, "McKee concluded.
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