Local contractor pleads to labor law violations
CONCORD – The Nashua owner of a painting company pleaded guilty in the federal court in Concord for reportedly getting employees to lie about overtime wages.
Kevin Corriveau, 42, was convicted on one count of obstruction of justice in connection with the investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor into his business.
According to court documents, Corriveau owned and operated a painting company, Kevin Corriveau Painting Inc. Corriveau admitted that he made an employee of his company provide false information to investigators from the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division in 2009 and 2011 regarding the extent of overtime hours worked by his employees.
From 2007 through April 2011, Corriveau had been directing employees to report only non-overtime work payroll and time records to conceal Fair Labor Standards Act overtime violations from being found in those records, according to court record. In 2011, Corriveau himself also falsely stated to investigators that his employees did not work overtime on a Needham, Massachusetts, construction project.
In 2013, in connection with a civil suit filed against him by the Department of Labor for alleged overtime violations, Corriveau knowingly created and provided the Department’s attorneys with fraudulent invoices and an altered change order that falsely stated that his employees did not work overtime on the Needham project, according to record.
Corriveau is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26.
Damien Fisher can be reached at 594-1245 or dfisher@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DF.