Man pleads guilty in concert scam ADVERTISING Man pleads guilty in concert scam HONOLULU (AP) — A North Carolina concert promoter pleaded guilty to defrauding the University of Hawaii out of $200,000 for a Stevie Wonder fundraiser concert that never
Man pleads guilty in concert scam
HONOLULU (AP) — A North Carolina concert promoter pleaded guilty to defrauding the University of Hawaii out of $200,000 for a Stevie Wonder fundraiser concert that never happened.
Marc Hubbard entered his plea to a charge of wire fraud in Honolulu federal court Tuesday, saying he lied about his ability to secure Wonder for a concert.
In 2012, the university paid a $200,000 deposit, began selling tickets and then learned neither Wonder nor his representatives authorized a show.
As part of a plea deal, prosecutors will recommend Hubbard’s sentence run concurrently with the sentence he receives for a similar case in Pennsylvania. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in Pennsylvania next week and Feb. 16 in Hawaii.
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried in Ohio
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — A sailor killed 75 years ago in the attack on Pearl Harbor is set to be buried with full military honors in northeast Ohio.
Rudolph Piskuran of Elyria and 429 other sailors aboard the USS Oklahoma were killed Dec. 7, 1941, when a torpedo struck the ship.
Piskuran’s remains were identified earlier this year through DNA testing. He will be buried late next week at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Elyria.
Piskuran was a 1940 graduate of Elyria High School.
Contractor pays back wages and damages for work
HONOLULU (AP) — A Texas contractor has paid dozens of workers more than $370,000 in back wages and damages after failing to pay them for overtime performed during the renovation of a Waikiki hotel.
The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday that R&R Construction Services Corp. of Houston paid 95 painters, carpenters and other workers more than $185,000 in unpaid overtime and an equal amount in damages.
The workers were renovating the Maile Sky Court Hotel in Waikiki to reopen it as a Holiday Inn Express.
The department says the company misclassified the employees as independent contractors and paid the workers a fixed daily rate instead of for the hours they worked.
