Contractor Debarred from Performing Public Work and DA Secures More than $60,000 in Underpaid Wages

Oceanside: Contractor Debarred from Performing Public Work and DA Secures More than $60,000 in Underpaid Wages

GTX Construction Associates Corp is prohibited from performing public work contracts for five years for falsification of bonding documents: Texas corporation paid $49.175.01 and Li company paid $12,239.40 for underpaid prevailing wages.

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Anne T.Donnelly announced that a Freeport construction company pleaded guilty yesterday to falsifying paperwork with the Wantagh Union Free School District and was barred from performing any public work contracts in New York State for five years. Separate NCDA investigations also led to the recovery of $60,000 in underpaid prevailing wages from both a Texas-based company and a Long Island-based company.

GTX Construction Associates Corp, entered into a guilty plea Wednesday before Judge Christopher Quinn to Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree (an E felony). The company was sentenced to a $1,000 fine and aconditional discharge. Under the New York State Labor Law, this felony conviction prohibits GTX and its principal Giovanni Napolitano from performing any public work contracts in New York State for five years.

Read the full DA press release below.