If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.and tax evasion against a construction company that he said cost the state and the company’s workers $2.6 million, he announced Tuesday.on Aug. 26 alleging that US Framing West dodged more than $2.
Between 2018 and 2022, US Framing West hired unlicensed subcontractors and underreported its payroll to the state Employment Development Department, Bonta said. He accused the company of grand theft, payroll tax evasion, prevailing wage theft, and filing false documents with the state. “California taxpayers are subsidizing criminal activity in the affordable housing industry,” Miller said.
Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Labor Federation, called wage theft “the number one crime” in the burglary and theft category and said businesses should not be able to pay their way out of wage theft violations.Rebecca Grossman, co-founder of Grossman Burn Center, sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing 2 boys