Cleaning firm owner charged in Brooklyn with violating wage, overtime laws
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman recently announced the arrest and arraignment of Jose Hector Hernandez Gramajo, the owner of the Long Island-based Royal Commercial Cleaning, in Brooklyn Criminal Court for failing to pay proper wages to workers he assigned to clean the United Artists Sheepshead Bay Stadium 14 movie theater.
Hernandez and his cleaning company face felony grand larceny and scheme to defraud charges for allegedly making his employees kick back money owed to them from a previous federal investigation, filing false applications for Workers Compensation Insurance and filing false quarterly state tax returns to avoid paying unemployment insurance.
He faces up to seven years behind bars.