3rdgenAg2010 said:
In the business's application, Mr. Johnson falsely claimed the company paid 49 employees an average of $441,667 per month and provided a fabricated IRS Form 940 that indicated it paid its employees more than $5.1 million in calendar year 2019. In actuality, the company employed about 10 individuals on an ad hoc basis and paid less than $100,000 in wages in 2019"
Well he's just an idiot lol
I definitely would agree with that.
When Andy lived here, he was a "general contractor". Probably the worst general contractor you could find in this area.
I think by the time Andy left, he was had already used the money from the next two or three homes and had no way to build them.
In one home Andy was remodeling, he had an electrician redo the electrical work in the house. After he got his clusterf*** complete, the homeowner couldn't afford to hire an actual electrician to tear out and redo the work that his "electrician" did. I don't know whatever happened with that house -- it may still be sitting empty.
In an office building he built, Andy did things like
1) Put in a shower with no trap. The building owner ended up having to pay someone else to tear the cement out, put in the trap, and cement it all back in.
2) The manager wanted an outlet in the middle of a room. So Andy cut a channel in the concrete and put a wall outlet with a plastic plate in the middle of the floor.
3a) Andy put in an attic with no vents. And he expected all the network gear to sit in the attic. Any time you needed to do anything with the network, you had to climb up into the attic and crawl over to where the networking gear sat. And as hot as a vented attic can get in the summertime, an unvented attic is much, much worse. I always wondered how long the equipment would last in such hot temperatures.
3b) To make up for 3a, after Andy was done, they commercial tenant ended up splicing!!! the ethernet cables to extend them down into a closet to the bathroom to put the router. Splicing ethernet cables is not good for network reliability.
4) I was over there one day before they put the sheet rock in. I won't swear to it, but I think that the ethernet cables in the walls ran outside the studs. So the sheet rock would have to go on top. That's why when we were trying to find a workaround for 3a above and tried to pull ethernet cables through, we couldn't do it.
5) There is no conduit for anything. The wires just run through the walls -- possibly all between the studs and the drywall.
6) I was shocked to find out that I knew the "electrician". There are few people, if any, lower than their "electrician" in the rankings of competence. If you wanted to do a good job, that is not who you would ever consider hiring to do anything, much less electrical work.
When Andy left town, the police really wanted him. I never expected him to ever come to Texas again, but he clearly did.
More on the electrician: The electrician claims to have been a lot of things. I don't believe any of them. For example:
1) He claimed to have been in charge of drilling rigs and claimed that as part of that, he usually had a hundred thousand dollars or more of company money in his pocket to cover incidentals.
2) He claimed to be an electrician. Yeah, sure. I've seen his work.
3) He claimed that the way that the telephone company finds fiber cuts is that they use an oscilloscope to listen for the sound of light escaping the fiber.
4) There were other claims that were just as bad or worse, but I can't remember most of them.
5) He has been involved in being a money mule for scammers. This was both by receiving packages bought with stolen credit cards and reshipped to Africa; and by receiving money orders, taking his cut, and sending the rest on to Africa or wherever the scammers were located. From what I gather, he's pretty much banned from every Western Union place in the Texas Panhandle.
6) He asked me one time "What is the Password for The Internet?" I had no idea what he was talking about, but he was really adament about it and thought I was lying A month or two later, I found out that one of his neighbors had named their wifi router "The Internet".
If Andy had been on the level, that was the last "electrician" he would ever hire. But since he just wanted to scam people, having a competent electrician was not a priority.
