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By Joseph Ostapiuk | jostapiuk@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island construction company and its two owners
were convicted Thursday of withholding overtime wages from employees and failing
to pay unemployment contributions to the New York State Department of Labor
(DOL), the state’s attorney general announced.
Michael Murphy and James Murphy Jr., owners of Premier Builders, were each
convicted of one count of failure to pay wages, said the office of Attorney General
Letitia James. The company was convicted of one count of fourth-degree grand
larceny and one count of first-degree falsifying business records.
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“New York’s construction workers, who risk their lives building our communities, are
often cheated out of their fair pay by greedy employers,” said James.
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