"A Walnut Creek man is facing a slew of wage theft and money laundering charges in San Mateo County for allegedly redirecting tens of thousands of dollars paid to his company for a catering contract to personal uses and failing to pay employees more than $8,000 in wages, prosecutors said. Benjamin George Harbor Jr., 50, was also previously convicted of embezzling hospital funds in Santa Clara County, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office."
"In the San Mateo County case, Harbor was charged with two counts of grand theft of wages, three counts of money laundering with an enhancement for an aggravated white collar crime, one count of obtaining money under false pretenses, one count of attempted grand theft and one count of making a check worth more than $950 with insufficient funds. He was also charged with two counts of failing to file a tax return, one count of filing a false tax return"
"Shin-Mee Chang, San Mateo County chief deputy district attorney, said that only two counts of wage theft were charged for the six victims because of the thresholds written into the law one count covered an amount greater than $950 owed to one victim, and the other count covered an aggregated amount exceeding $2,350 for multiple victims. Harbor's former conviction will also impact his sentence if he is convicted, Chang added."
Benjamin George Harbor Jr., 50, is charged in San Mateo County with multiple counts including wage theft, money laundering, and tax-related offenses for allegedly diverting tens of thousands of dollars from a catering contract to personal use and failing to pay employees over $8,000 in wages. Charges list two counts of grand theft of wages, three counts of money laundering with an aggravated white-collar enhancement, obtaining money under false pretenses, attempted grand theft, issuing a bad check over $950, and several tax-filing offenses. Harbor pleaded not guilty at arraignment. A prior embezzlement conviction in Santa Clara County may influence sentencing. Wage-theft counts were limited by statutory thresholds that aggregated victim amounts.
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