NH Contractor Gets Six Months for Obstructing Wage Probe

A New Hampshire painting contractor was sentenced to six months for obstructing a Labor Department wage-and-hour investigation into unpaid overtime wages for the company’s painters and carpenters.

Kevin Corriveau was also fined $25,000 by Judge Paul J. Barbadoro at an April 30 sentencing hearing in federal court in New Hampshire. Upon his release from incarceration, Corriveau will be on supervised release for two years.

Corriveau, president and owner of Corriveau Painting Inc. in Nashua, N.H., was charged with one count of obstruction of justice for providing false documents to DOL investigators and encouraging an employee to lie to investigators. He ...