In Radio Interview, Moreno Repeats Lies He Knows Aren’t True About Wage Theft Lawsuits
February 14, 2024
Separate Fact Checks Have Found Moreno’s Excuses “False”
Columbus, OH – After a series of fact checks have found that Bernie Moreno’s excuses for destroying evidence and refusing to pay his employees overtime are “false,” Moreno again repeated the lies he knows aren’t true during a radio interview today.
Read Moreno’s lies and the facts below:
MORENO’S LIE: Moreno repeated his lie that the judge in the wage theft case against him was a “very upset, crazy, liberal judge.”
FACT CHECK: “The judge overseeing Moreno’s jury trial, Michael Ricciuti, was no liberal activist. He 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’S LIE: Moreno repeated his lie that the jury’s decision was “retroactive.”
FACT CHECK: “[N]othing 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, even for workers who earn commission on sales.”
MORENO’S LIE: “I don’t believe any of [my employees] even actually worked overtime.”
FACT CHECK: “Ultimately, a jury found in August 2022 that [Moreno’s employees] who joined the lawsuit had proven ‘by a preponderance of the evidence’ that they had worked overtime hours, and that his employers knew that.”
One thing Moreno did get right:
MORENO: “We destroyed lots of documents that of course we purged…”
FACT CHECK: True.
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