March 18, 2016

New York announced the guilty pleas of Sergio Raymundo, 28, and his New Paltz-based construction company Lalo Drywall, Inc. Raymundo and Lalo Drywall, Inc. cheated eight workers at a Harlem housing project out of approximately $800,000 in wages during a 17-month period, and attempted to conceal the underpayments by signing false checks drawn on the company’s account indicating that employees on the job were paid properly under the law. However, those checks were never actually given to the workers. NY