A Doylestown engineering firm stole $2 million by overbilling townships, boroughs, and businesses,
A civil-engineering firm whose clients included dozens of area municipal governments, school districts, and churches from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Poconos spent nearly a decade defrauding them by billing for work it never completed, state prosecutors asserted Tuesday.
In all, clients of Boucher & James Inc., allegedly were overbilled by $2 million by the Doylestown-based company, with almost a quarter of that total being paid by one unsuspecting Bucks County township.
Agents from the Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday arrested former company owner Ross Boucher, 58, as well as former board directors Mark Eisold, 57, and David Jones, 63. All three face charges of racketeering, theft by deception, and related offenses.
According to the affidavit of probable cause for their arrests, the three oversaw a plan between 2009 and 2018 to manipulate their employees’ time cards, artificially inflating the number of hours worked. In one instance, an employee was allegedly paid as if he had worked 34 hours in a single day.
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