5 Facts About Moreno Destroying Evidence To Get Out Of Paying His Employees Overtime
February 14, 2024
Separate Fact Checks Have Found Moreno’s Excuses “False”
Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno has destroyed evidence to get out of paying his employees the overtime they earned, and a series of fact checks have confirmed his excuses are “false.” Here are five fast facts about the lawsuits Moreno faced and how he has lied about them:
- After being sued by his employees for withholding wages, Moreno destroyed key evidence he was legally required to keep.
- Moreno was sanctioned by a judge for destroying key evidence to avoid paying his employees the overtime they had earned.
- Moreno was found liable by a jury for wage theft and was forced to pay over $400,000 in damages – only then did he settle over a dozen wage theft lawsuits before launching his Senate bid.
- Moreno has blamed “liberal,” “activist,” “lunatic” judges for losing the jury trial in the case – which reports note “isn’t true.” In fact, the judge in Moreno’s case was a “Republican-appointed jurist who also served as chief of the anti-terrorism and national security unit of the Boston US Attorney’s office under President George W. Bush.”
- Moreno also made “false claims” that a 2019 Massachusetts court decision “retroactively” required him to pay his employees overtime. A WKYC fact check showed Moreno was “required to pay [his employees] for overtime worked” beginning in 2015 and that “nothing new and unexpected was retroactively required of employers” after the decision.
Moreno’s multiple lies and refusal to answer legitimate questions about how far he went to avoid paying his employees makes it clear: Moreno doesn’t think the rules apply to him and Ohioans can’t trust him to look out for anyone but himself.
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