A Brooklyn construction company that paid its workers less than half the rate it was required to has been fined $2.5m and banned from public works contracts for the next five years.
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Michael Riglietti, the founder of the MSR Electrical Construction Company, pleaded guilty yesterday (15 November) to grand larceny and violating New York’s wage requirements, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said: “These defendants got lucrative public works contracts and then shamefully stole money from their own employees. In Brooklyn, we will not allow hard-earned wages to be stolen from hardworking employees. This decision to steal wages turned out to be a very costly theft for these defendants and should serve as notice to others considering cheating employees that they will be prosecuted.”
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