Summary

On September 13, 2012, Crossboro Construction Contracting, through its President, Michael Paletta, agreed to a civil settlement with the Southern District of New York to resolve a civil false claims action.  The amount of the settlement is $355,164.  Between approximately 1994 and March 2011, Mr. Paletta and Crossboro (a non-DBE), conspired with MS Construction (a DBE) to perform construction work on various federally-funded bridge projects in Manhattan and other boroughs where MS Construction was the purported DBE subcontractor.  MS Construction was paid approximately 5% as its "fee" and relied upon Crossboro for performance of the actual work.