Published: January 12, 2011
Tags: ACLU, Ahmuty, American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, Arthur Reeves, attorney general, Beth Reeves, Charles Goes, contractor, conviction, court, Eisenhour, felony, Lake Geneva, lawsuit, Linda Goes, Phillip Koss, Rayner, Reeves Custom Builders, Van Hollen, Walworth County
By Marie Rohde Wisconsin’s attorney general is asking an appellate court to overturn a contractor’s conviction on nine felonies of theft, fraud and embezzlement because the prosecutor secretly demanded the victims pay the cost of a key expert witness. “It’s rare for the state to make a full confession of reversible error in a criminal [...]
Published: December 16, 2010
Tags: assets, auction, contractor, Dziadus, GoIndustry DoveBid, Great Lakes Trucks & Equipment, Michael Ackerman, Midwest Masonry, Polsky, Riesner, The Jansen Group, VJS Construction, VJS Construction Services Inc., Wykoski
By Marie Rohde Mike Riesner, a 31-year employee of The Jansen Group Inc., couldn’t make it to the auction Thursday when all of the contractor’s assets were sold. But he couldn’t resist stopping by a few days before the sale. “I looked at some of those tools and remembered that I probably used them out [...]
Published: March 30, 2010
Tags: Alex Runner, American Subcontractors Association of Wisconsin, Beiriger, bid preference, business, contractor, Department of Public Works, Milwaukee, Penebaker Enterprises, Preston Cole, property, Wanta, Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association
By Sean Ryan An attempt to use a city property to lure a construction company to Milwaukee must overcome the business trends that push contractors away. A Milwaukee Department of Public Works proposal would free up a 2-acre lot at West Holt Avenue and South 21st Street to be sold to a private company. The [...]
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: bill, blog, contractor, Fetters, Hot Topics, risk transfer, Sen. Lena Taylor, subcontractor
By Tom Fetters
copy editor
Why shouldn’t the “you break it, you bought it” rule apply to all construction companies?
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state board is expected to consider whether to award $1.7 million in damages to a contractor embroiled in a dispute over a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall project. The Department of Administration has asked the State Claims Board to deny the damages for Dore & Associates of Bay City, Mich. [...]
By Sean Ryan Two contractors are taking their fight against Milwaukee’s local preference law to a state agency after a judge Thursday rejected their arguments. Underground Pipeline Construction Inc., New Berlin, and American Sewer Services Inc., Rubicon, sued Milwaukee over its 5 percent bidding preference for local companies but could not convince a judge the [...]
Published: August 12, 2009
Tags: Big Dig, Boston, contractor, highways, tunnel
Steve LeBlanc AP Writer Boston — A federal judge has postponed sentencing one of the Big Dig’s largest contractors in connection with work on the $15 billion Boston highway project, even though the company has filed for bankruptcy protection. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said Tuesday that he wanted to hear testimony from expert witnesses [...]
Published: August 7, 2009
Tags: contractor, developer, engineer, FBI, New Jersey, sting
Samantha Henry AP Writer Newark, NJ (AP) — Federal authorities couldn’t have picked a more fertile target than New Jersey’s Manhattan-facing waterfront towns for a fake cash-for-development undercover sting, longtime observers say. The majority of those arrested in a sweeping FBI bust that netted 44 people on corruption and money laundering charges had ties — [...]
