Lawyers for Structure Tone, a $3-billion-a-year general building contractor based in New York City, admitted in Manhattan Supreme Court last week that the company regularly filed false documents to justify its billing records.
The firm agreed to forfeit $55 million in a plea deal that the Manhattan district attorney called “one of the largest forfeiture penalties ever imposed on a construction company.”
Structure Tone issued a statement insisting that the plea “has no impact on our ability to complete existing and future projects. Long before this process began, we strengthened our compliance protocols to improve transparency.”