PA Construction Co. Glenn Hawbaker Pays $20M for “Stolen Wages”
Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc., long known for providing stone quarries and asphalt plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, also provides civil construction services for shale well sites. In early August Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro, an anti-drilling partisan hack, announced a plea deal with Hawbaker to pay back $20 million in alleged “stolen wages” from over 1,000 Hawbaker employees. After the plea deal, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation (PennDOT) moved to deny any new construction contracts to Hawbaker for the next three years–contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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