BMY Foods Inc

Description

The defendants did not pay 300 current and former workers at nine Papa John’s franchise establishments the legally required overtime pay. They paid overtime hours in cash and created fake names for the employees in the timekeeping system to get around paying overtime pay. They filed fraudulent tax returns that left off the cash payments made to the fake employees.

Prosecutors:

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Holt; Section Chief Richard Balletta of the Labor Bureau; Deputy Bureau Chief Stephanie Swenton of the Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau and the Auto Insurance Fraud Unit

Incident Type: Wage Theft

County: Bronx

State: NY

Date: Nov. 16, 2015

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Victims

First	Last	Age	Title	Employer	Injury Type
Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	BMY Foods Inc.	Wage Theft

Defendants

Name	Type	Title	Plea Info.	Conviction Sentence
Abdul Jamil Khokhar	Individual	Franchise Owner	Pleaded guilty to failing to pay wages	As part of plea agreement, Khokhar was sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay $230,000 in back wages to the employees.
	Crimes Charged:		Penal Crimes: Info unavailable	Other Crimes: Failing to pay wages under NY law (misdemeanor)
BMY Foods Inc.	Entity	Entity	Pleaded guilty to falsifying business records	Info unavailable
	Crimes Charged:		Penal Crimes: Falsifying business records (N.Y. Pen. Code Sec. 175.10)	Other Crimes: Info unavailable