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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Milford man going to prison for not paying workers
http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/New-Milford-man-going-to-prison-for-not-paying-3688482.phpRob Varnon
Updated 02:54 p.m., Saturday, July 7, 2012
The state Department of Labor announced Friday that Douglas Agnessanto, 56, of Gaylordsville, was ordered by a state judge to serve three months in prison for failing to pay seven employees of his former cleaning business.
Agnessanto was arrested in 2010 on felony charges stemming from complaints that he failed to pay the workers at his Danbury-based business, Performance Cleaning.
Agnessanto appeared in Danbury Judicial District Court last Monday, after being arrested on a warrant, according to the labor department. This is the first time a labor department action has resulted in a sentence of jail time and restitution for failing to pay wages, labor department spokeswoman Nancy Steffens said via email.
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New Milford man going to prison for not paying workers (Original Post)
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. As vile as not paying people is,
this line, "This is the first time a labor department action has resulted in a sentence of jail time and restitution for failing to pay wages, labor department spokeswoman Nancy Steffens said via email.", finding new reasons to imprison people in our nation of expanding prison populations is a bit unnerving.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)2. +1.
tridim
(45,358 posts)3. As some of you know, my former boss owes me over 30k
And he got away with it by hiding behind his "LLC", which is really nothing more than a license to screw your employees with no consequences.
Three months for my asshole boss would have been just about right IMO, but I couldn't afford justice because he didn't pay me.