Home Repair Contractor Gets 13 Months For Pocketing Insurance Proceeds, FEMA Funds & Failing To Perform Hurricane Repairs

In Norfolk, Virginia, The Virginian Pilot reports:

• A former home-repair contractor convicted last year of mail fraud was sentenced in federal court [last] Friday to a year and a month in prison - a fraction of the prison time that the Justice Department asked the court to impose. The contractor, Richard C. Pirozzi of southern Maryland, defrauded scores of Hampton Roads homeowners in 2003 after they suffered damages from Hurricane Isabel, a jury determined in June. Pirozzi's company, National Restoration Specialists Inc. of Bowie, Md., collected insurance and Federal Emergency Management Agency payments from victims but failed in many cases to make the needed repairs, prosecutors reiterated during [last] Friday's hearing.

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