According to US Attorney, SDNY, "Earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, Muzaffar Nadeem, the owner of SM&B Construction Co., Inc. (SM&B), was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment, ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution to the IRS, and ordered to forfeit to the government over $7.1 million in criminal proceeds, following his convictions on May 8, 2015, after a four-week jury trial, for mail and wire fraud, structuring financial transactions, federal programs bribery, making illegal cash payments to a union official, money laundering, unlawful monetary transactions over $10,000, subscribing to false tax returns, and multiple related conspiracy charges.
The convictions arose out of Nadeem’s leadership role in a long-running scheme to pay SM&B’s workers a fraction of the prevailing wage on projects funded by the New York City School Construction Authority (SCA), as SM&B was legally and contractually required to do. Nadeem’s co-conspirators Zainul Syed, Afzaal Chaudry and Irfan Muzaffar were also convicted at trial of various crimes for their participation in this scheme. Muzaffar was previously sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, and Chaudry was previously sentenced time served, following approximately ten months of imprisonment. Syed is awaiting sentencing. The sentencing proceedings were held before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan. "
One of the articles said that the company collected or won 72 million dollars in contracts with the city. Trust me, in jail, you don't enjoy one penny of it. Interesting to note that the names are all Pakistani. See story here...https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/school-construction-authority-general-contractor-sentenced-96-months-prison-long
When you cheat your workers out of their wages, their is a price to pay. The Torah says you should pay your workers on time.
The story made it to the New York times too. See here....http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/nyregion/brooklyn-construction-firm-shortchanged-workers-prosecutors-say.html.
To read what prison is about go here....http://www.amazon.com/PRISON-expect-Federal-Bureau-Prisons-ebook/dp/B011GTWLOG
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