Kenneth Padover, owner of Arbor Concrete Corp., was arrested and faces 136 felony counts for his allegedly failure to pay $268,055 in benefits to workers on a construction project at JFK Airport in New York. The felony counts include offering a false instrument for filing and falsifying business records. Padover and his company also face three misdemeanor counts of failure to pay wages.
The felonies date back to a construction project between June 2013 and October 2014 when employees of Arbor Concrete Corp. were installing security bollards at the Delta Airlines Terminal. The project was governed by the Davis-Bacon Law, and the Port Authority contract also required payment of prevailing wages as a condition of the contract. Padover allegedly filed false certified payroll records but never paid the supplemental benefits required.
