AJ Renovations Corp., president, vice president, and manager were charged in June 2024 for tiling to pay more than $140,000 in prevailing wages and unemployment insurance on projects between 2019 and 2021.

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a North Babylon asbestos removal and demolition labor company and its executive leadership pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $80,000 in prevailing wages that they owed employees for public work projects at schools in the Merrick and Oceanside Union Free School Districts between 2019 and 2021. The company and its president also pleaded guilty to falsifying unemployment Insurance Contribution returns with New York State, resulting in a shortfall to the State's Unemployment Insurance coffers of more than $60.000.

JA Renovations Corp., located in North Babylon, and Joseph Demasco. 67, a manager to the company, pleaded guilty today before judge Christopher Quinn to Labor Law § 220(3)(d)(i)(2) Failure to Pay the Prevailing Wage (an E felony). BJA Renovations Corp. also pleaded guilty to Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree (an E felony).

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