Investigations

Dennis E. Rehder, owner of DGS General Construction, Inc., of Woodburn, OR, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland, OR, to pay $27,396 in restitution and $5,100 in fines for failing to pay employees the prevailing wage. Rehder knowingly underpaid five employees working on the Salem Historic Passenger Rail Station, a Federal-aid project, funded in part by the Federal Highway Administration, thereby avoiding payment of an additional $33,814 in wages. This investigation was conducted jointly by DOT OIG and the Department of Labor OIG.