The owner of a cabinet-making company has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies involving an alleged scheme to underpay employees on public works projects, and he’ll be sentenced Nov. 8.
However, No Sung Park, 75, of Hollywood, was not the only one snared in the tangled scheme that involved work at a Santa Ana elementary school.
Scott Sung Yang, 45, Los Angeles, who owned and operated Mackone Development and employed Michael John Ferrin, 40, of San Pedro, as his project superintendent to oversee projects, are both due in court Sept. 26.
Park worked for Mackone Development as a subcontractor on several public works projects, prosecutors said.
Yang was awarded a public works project at Harvey Street Elementary School in Santa Ana in 2012 as the prime contractor.
Between Jan. 1, 2005, and July 29, 2012, the defendants are accused of conspiring to underpay workers on numerous public works projects $10 to $14 per hour after contractually agreeing to pay a wage of about $44 per hour, prosecutors said.
Between April 2009 and April 2015, Park required his workers to work six- day weeks with daily shifts lasting 12 to 14 hours, prosecutors said.
Park paid his workers by check for the first 40 hours a week and paid them cash for any overtime they worked and failed to report the payments to State Compensation Insurance Fund or the Employment Development Department, according to prosecutors.
Park was charged in March with additional felonies for attempting to take restitution money from victims in another case.
–City News Service