South Florida Contractor Faces More Felonies For Allegedly Taking Customer Cash, Failing To Start, Finish Remodeling Jobs

In Plam Beach County, Florida, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports:

• [P]olice arrested Douglas Livingston, 41, [...] accusing him of two felonies- fraud and grand theft of more than $50,000. He took money from four Delray Beach clients for remodeling jobs that the company either never started or failed to finish, said Detective Tom Whatley of the Delray Beach Police Department.(1)

For more, see Oakland Park man arrested again on construction-related theft charges.

See also, WPTV Channel 5: Man arrested for allegedly scamming thousands of dollars.

For other posts on homeowners left in the lurch due to actions by builders/contractors, go here, go here, go here, go here, and go here.

(1) According to the story, the latest accusations echo the charges that Livingston, of Oakland Park, faces in Broward County Circuit Court as the chief executive officer of the now-defunct HomeCo Unlimited. He was reportedly arrested in November 2004 on 70 counts of extortion, theft and fraud related to remodeling jobs never completed. Former HomeCo customers accused him of verbally intimidating them, prompting six to file police reports against him, the story states. StiffingContractorsTheta