FACT CHECK: Moreno Destroyed Evidence To Get Out Of Paying His Employees Overtime & Has Repeatedly Lied About It
February 19, 2024
Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno has faced ongoing scrutiny and attacks after reports showed he destroyed evidence to get out of paying his employees overtime wages they’d earned. Multiple fact checks have found Moreno’s excuses for committing wage theft “false,” but Moreno keeps lying.
Here are the facts:
- After being sued by his employees for withholding their wages, Bernie Moreno was forced to admit in a deposition that he destroyed key evidence he was legally required to keep.
- Moreno was sanctioned by a judge for shredding documents to avoid paying his employees the overtime they 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’s excuse that he lost the jury trial because of “liberal,” “activist,” “lunatic” judges “isn’t true.”
- Moreno made “false claims” that a 2019 Massachusetts court decision “retroactively” required him to pay his employees overtime. The truth is, “nothing new and unexpected was retroactively required of employers, in either court’s verdict. Once the 2015 state regulation went into effect, employers were required to pay for overtime worked.”
READ MORE:
- Business Insider: Trump-backed Ohio Senate candidate shredded documents as he faced a lawsuit accusing him of wage theft
- WCMH: Fact check: Did Senate candidate Bernie Moreno shred documents accusing him of wage theft?
- Mother Jones: A GOP Senate Candidate Blames “Liberal” Judges for His Labor Violations. Just One Problem With That.
- WKYC: No, Bernie Moreno’s claims that Massachusetts courts overturned federal law in wage theft lawsuits and made rulings retroactive are not true: VERIFY
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