Brooklyn contractor slapped with probation, pays up for cheated workers
A contractor who underpaid workers by about $50 per hour for restoration work on two Brooklyn housing developments was slapped with three years’ probation at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday and was forced to pay back his employees.
Mehdi Dayan, 75, secured probation after he returned $650,000 in restitution last week. Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Dayan over prosecutors’ recommendations for five years’ probation.
In his guilty plea to second-degree grand larceny and first-degree scheme to defraud, the contractor admitted to underpaying 27 workers and getting them to lie about it to inspectors, according to court documents.