Florida contractor in Fatal autumn incident

A contractor in Florida was sentenced to 48 months in prison and millions of dollars of fines and reimbursement, after not taking out employee compensation insurance and ignoring security practices, which led to fatal consequences.

Despite six earlier quotes from the US security and health administration, Manuel Domingo's Pita of Wesley Chapel, she did not provide workers on rooftops. In 2020, a worker who installed the roofing on a windy day was blown and killed by the roof, said the US law firm in Tampa in a bulletin.

In 2024, Pita was guilty of violating intentional violations of the workplace and against fraud. He also admitted that insurance companies of more than 22 million US dollars be cheated on employee compensation premiums, according to the public prosecutor. He consistently examined the salary statement when buying computation. The man also paid no more than 33 million US dollars on federal taxes on the wages of employees.

“In this case, the defendant has carried out a deliberate program for the scam of insurance companies, the government and the expulsion of taxes, which leads to enormous losses for the US Ministry of Finance and for personal advice” Florida.

Pita owned Domingos 54 Construction, a subcontractor who framed new houses in the Tampa region. In 2019, Osha repeated the company repeated because they had missed the workers on roofs of the roofs under construction, according to the public prosecutor. However, Pita continued to ignore security requirements and did not pay the fines, as court documents show.

“Lord Pita has repeatedly violated the long -term guidelines that are protected to protect the workforce, which led to a tragic death,” said Matthew Fodor, special agent for the FBI TAMPA field office.

Pita was charged with fraud in 2022. In January of this year, he signed a declaration of consent, the legal lawsuit of Osha and the approval of the payment of the penalties plus interest. In a plea contract, he promised to expose assets of more than 5 million US dollars and to pay around 55 million dollars in reimbursement.

The insurance providers and the killed workers were not mentioned in court documents.

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