Contractor Admits To Underpaying Workers
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The supervisor of an electrical contracting company has pled guilty to charges that he defrauded employees working on Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority projects.
The defendant, John Mari Jr., admitted yesterday that he failed to pay prevailing wages to six employees and then lied about the amount paid in documents filed between 2005 and 2007. He will now pay full restitution to the workers, who are owed more than $200,000 in total.
Mr. Mari’s company, Atlas Electrical Contractors Inc., had worked at the Chambers Street subway station, the Staten Island Railway, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and the AirTrain project in Jamaica, N.Y. He pled guilty in state Supreme Court to Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree.
The Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, announced the plea in a press release yesterday. His office had conducted a joint investigation into the case with the Port Authority and the MTA.