NY AG Seeks Contempt Order Against Barred Home Improvement Contractor

From the New York Attorney General's Office:

• Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo [earlier this month] announced that his office has filed legal action seeking a contempt order against a Red Hook home improvement contractor who recently resumed doing business despite a previous court ruling barring him from the industry. Red Hook contractor Robert Brown, 65, [...] faces a potential fine and/or jail time if found in contempt of the prior court ruling.

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• The Attorney General’s Office sued Brown in 2006 for repeatedly defrauding customers by taking advance payments for plumbing and basement waterproofing jobs, and performing shoddy work or no work at all. In that case, Dutchess County State Supreme Court Justice James V. Brands issued a permanent order barring Brown from operating a home improvement business unless he obtained a $100,000 performance bond and paid full restitution to customers – of which Brown has done neither.

For more, see Attorney General Cuomo Seeks Contempt Ruling Against Dutchess County Home Improvement Contractor Who Violated Court Order (Contractor barred from doing business defied court order).

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