Minnesota Contractor Gets 9+ Years In Prison For $950K+ Swindle

The Star Tribune reports:

• "The scheme carried out by remodeling contractor Rick Gurewitz to swindle two families of nearly $1 million dollars was so abhorrent, a Hennepin County judge said Monday, that he doubled the prison time usually handed down for such crimes. Gurewitz, 41, the owner of Home Update Company, bilked one elderly woman out of her entire inheritance. He charged her $789,000 for substandard and overpriced work on a century-old 600-square-foot Minneapolis house."

For more, see Contractor gets double the sentence for swindling elderly (Rick Gurewitz told the judge that "pathologies," like gambling, made him do it. The judge was not moved).