Construction employers found in contempt for failing to pay most of $2.4M wage-theft settlement

WORCESTER – A federal judge has found men from Fitchburg and Clinton who ran area construction companies in contempt for failing to pay more than $1 million in back wages to 478 employees following a 2016 wage theft investigation.Juliano Fernandes of Clinton, Anderson Dos Santos of Fitchburg and the two local companies they managed, Force Corp. and AB Construction Group, were found in contempt March 31 in U.S. District Court at the request of the U.S. Department of […]