The former head of construction at Bloomberg LP cooked up a lucrative side business, prosecutors say: an electrical-contracting company that he kept humming with $250 million worth of business from the global media and financial-information company.
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Read More »A top official for concrete contractor Sonag Ready Mix will pay more than $600,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of exploiting a program to help small businesses.
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Read More »Wisconsin labor officials referred 36 unemployment fraud cases to the state Department of Justice during the past year, up from six cases in 2014.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget would increase the penalties unemployment recipients must pay if they use fraud to obtain more from the system than they are entitled to.
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Read More »A developer whose company went belly up after he persuaded a small Wisconsin village to take on millions of dollars of tax increment finance debt for a resort has been sentenced to five years of supervision on a related charge of theft by contractor.
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Read More »A Waukesha restaurant owner was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for his participation in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in construction loans for a condominium project.
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Read More »A former West Allis mortgage loan modification officer has been charged with 11 felony counts of fraud.
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A jury Thursday found contractor Homer Key, accused of colluding to steal federal grant money from Milwaukee County, guilty of felony forgery and conspiring to commit the crime of having a private interest in a public contract.
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A contractor accused of bilking Milwaukee County out of tens of thousands of dollars in federal grant money was no more than a victim of an incompetent bureaucrat, his attorney said Tuesday.
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Jury selection began Monday for the trial of contractor Homer Key, who is accused of colluding with a former Milwaukee County employee to steal federal grants intended to help disadvantaged business enterprises.
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