Stringer searching for 228 Brooklynites owed $590K
One Brooklyn resident could get $59,000
Robert L. Adams, Gloria Bennett, Tito Morales: The New York City Comptroller is looking for you – and 225 other Brooklynites.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is looking for 228 local residents who don’t know they are owed big bucks — a total of $590,000 — for work they did on city-funded projects over the years. Their last known addresses are in Brooklyn.
City subcontractors underpaid hundreds of workers in all five borough, in violation of New York’s Labor Law, and Stringer’s office has been rooting them out, company by company, and taking them to court.
“My office’s Bureau of Labor Law has worked tirelessly to reclaim unpaid wages, as well as to locate workers, and get them the money they’ve already earned,” Stringer said in a statement on Wednesday. “As comptroller, it is very gratifying to be able to connect workers with their hard earned dollars, so that they can build their lives and support their families.”
Across the city, more than a thousand workers are entitled to payments totaling roughly $3.7 million.
“Thousands of hard-working individuals, many of whom are immigrants, have been cheated out of their rightfully-earned wages, but they may not know these funds exist,” he said, adding that he’s asking the public to help to get the word out. “My office is here to help them get their money through a free, and anonymous, process.”
Stringer’s office has compiled a list of the deserving Brooklyn workers for the Brooklyn Eagle, and we’ve published it below. Are you or anyone you know on the list? If so, Stringer’s office would like to hear from you! Visit http://comptroller.nyc.gov/general-information/prevailing-wage/ to notify them on how to contact you.
Even if you’re not from Brooklyn, you can use a lookup tool on the above website to see if your name is on the citywide list.
The average amount owed to workers across all five boroughs is $3,576, Stringer’s office says, but some payouts will be much more.
Stringer’s Bureau of Labor Law has already found eight Brooklynites and informed them of the happy news. One Central Brooklyn man was surprised when he was told that the city planned to give him over $37,000 in back pay.
And the city is still searching for another individual, whose last known residence is in Brooklyn, who is owed a whopping $59,000.
Across the city, 21 individuals have filled out the claim forms. Of these, 13 have been already been paid nearly $158,000 in unpaid wages plus interest, Stringer’s office said.
Contractors Barred from Working with the City
The Bureau of Labor Law has assessed nearly $10 million in unpaid wages and interest and over $1 million in penalties to companies since the effort began in January 2014. More than 25 contractors have been barred from working with the city.
Their latest win involved a Queens company that underpaid three Latino immigrant workers who repaired and installed metal rolling gates, grills and fences at public schools in New York City.
Astoria General Contracting Corp. has been hit with more than $1.1 million in unpaid wages and benefits, interest and civil penalties. The company is also barred from doing work with the city and state for five years.
“Three men are going to get the wages they deserve and another contractor has learned the hard way that we take our enforcement of prevailing wage very seriously,” Stringer said.
This case was originally referred to Comptroller Stringer’s Bureau of Labor Law by the city Department of Education. During an 11-day trial, surveillance video and security and visitors logs revealed that the firm had falsified certified payroll records by completely omitting two of the employees and reporting payment of prevailing wages and benefits to the third.
Updated at 4:45 p.m. to reflect that 228 Brooklynites are owed money, not 231 as originally reported. Some workers are owed back pay from multiple jobs.
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The List: Brooklyn Workers Owed Money
Adams,Robert L.
Addeyinka,Babatunbe
Adesanya,Adewale
Akerele,Julius
Allen,Kenrick
Amado,Thomas
Aniello,Guy
Arreaea,Leopoldo
Arthur,Damien
Askar,Sulaiman
Avery,Charles
Baah,Thomas
Bailey,Vaughn
Baptiste,David
Barnes,Henry
Beckles,Trevor
Bekiri,Laim
Belli,Alban
Bennett,Gloria
Bobb,Olga
Boguslaw,Serafin A.
Boikov,Vladimir
Brisport,Collin
Brown,Anthony
Brunson,Lakeysha
Bryant,Ida
Brzozowski,Grezegorz
Bunch,Gaye
Calle,Saul
Cambizaca,Erwin L.
Camean,Manuel
Campi,Elio
Carl,Maxi
Chachlowski,Wojciech
Chaperon,Raymond L.
Chappell,Eldridge
Charles,Rubens
Claudio,Anna
Colas,Ian
Corletto,George A.
Coronel,Gustavo
Crandell,Rodney
Crespo,Miguel
Cunningham,Veronica
Dabel,Maxime
Dacosta,Tessa
Dalleo,Frank
Danclair,Vernon
Daniel,Stanley
Davis,Lawanda
Davis,Shaquan
Degazon,Anthony M.
Denton,Gregory D.
Diaz,Yaritza
Diaz,Richard
Drozd,Thomas
Dunn,Antwyne
Dykes,Tamara
Eastman,Elizabeth
Edgard,Jean
Elisashvili,David
Espinol,Donny
Espinoza,J
Etwara,Katenarine
Fabien,Fabiola
Farmer,Jennifer
Fasasi,Iyabode
Ferrer,Carlos
Flores,Martin
Francois,Thamer
Gaston,Mariam
Gawel,Jacek
Gayflower,Teima
Gerard,Bellange
Gibson,Robert G.
Gonzalez,M
Grabarz,Adam
Griffith,Athelstan
Guthrie,Rhoan
Haggins,Ronald
Hall,Claudia
Hampton,John
Hanoef,Basheer
Harris,Kelly D.
Hazel,Mahenie I.
Henvill,Tiffany
Herdon,Rick
Hodge,William
Hood,Earnest
Horton,Jacqueline
Ifabiyi,Taiwo
Ilazarov,Ratmir
Jacobs,Arnols B
Jamison,Barret L
Jioul,Smail
Johnson,Cheyonne
Johnson,Derrick N
Johnson,Paulette
Jolivert,Jean
Joseph,Juan
Kakawa,Anastasios
Kennedy,Daniel
Kennedy,Deon
Khvorenkov,Igor
Klasher,Shand
Klishkovskiy,Yuri
Kondratyev,Aleksandr
Kondryuk,Anatoliy
Krusezwski,Norbert
Kuprel,Roman
Kutuzov,Petr
Laguerre,Jean
Lane,Yvonne
Lawrence,Sabrina
Lee,Darnell
Lee,Derryke
Lee,Perry
Lena,Orges
Levine,Wanda
Lewis,Anthony
Lohier,Jean-Gladue
London,Roxanne
Lucey,Andrea D.
Lyalin,Arkady
Macias,Jose
Mackins,Jacqueline
Maharaj,Barry
Maisonet,Jason
Makinde,Sikeade
Makun,Rasaki
Markuszewski,Henryk
Marrero,Shawn
Martinez,Ernesto
Martinez,Hector
Maycock,Sharon
Mccain,Leonard
Mcgill,James
Mcgriff,Cora
Medina,Ademir
Meha,Sulejman
Menadi,Vito
Meyers,William
Miklas,Miroslaw
Mis,Krzysztof
Moldavsky,Gregory
Moore,Ezra A.
Morales,Tito
Moses,Dayvon J.
Murray,Derrick
Muscolino,Thomas
Narvaez,Quan
Newton,Latisha
Nwajel,Princewill
Olowu,Adrenrele
Omolayo,Issac
Oritiz,M.
Ortiz,Benjamin
Ortiz,Hipolito
Osinowo,Ayodele
Otero,Arturo
Palamarenko,Andriy
Palazzolo,Christopher
Palazzolo,Christopher
Paul,Manducheka
Perez,David
Peynado,Gregory M.
Philips,Ralph
Pierre,Jean Eddy
Pinto,Israel
Popiolek,Marek
Preston,Donald D.
Previl,Daumec
Prosepero,Roberto
Qaryouti,M.
Qoku,Mohamet
Ramos,Claudio
Reeves,Rochelle
Reynosa,”Jose J,”
Richardson,Michael
Ridley,Jessie
Rivers,Nicole
Robinson,Early
Rodriguez,Johnny
Rodriguez,Roberto
Romero,Paulino
Salem,Ibrahim
Sandiford,David C.
Santos,Jose L.
Santos,Juan
Santos,Luis I
Santos,Philip
Sarnikowski,Krzysztof
Shim,Nadine
Silva,Fernando
Skibowski,Bartosz
Smith,Steven
Smith,Vicki E.
Stepan,Dudyak
Stewart,Sherrod
Strait,Aaron
Szczesniewicz,Dariusz J.
Thomas,Darryl
Thomas,Rhonda
Thompson,Rohan
Tirado,Alberto
Torres,Hector
Townsend,Gerald
Townsend,Nyeasha
Treyakov,Ruslav
Tudor,Mark
Tyka,Eugeniusz
Vega,Vilma
Velasquez,Anthonio
Vilensky,Vladimir
Villalona,Roberto
Vilmenay,Pat
Walker,Conrad
Wallace,Kevin
Washington,Kareen
Welch,Rodney
Wiktorzak,Roman
Williams,James
Williams,Ronald
Williams,Terry
Wilson,Andy
Wynder,Reginald
Yearwood,Kirt
Zawinowski,Zarius
Zuniga,Mario
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