Moreno Repeats Lies About Stealing His Employees’ Wages As More Lawsuits Surface Against Him
February 27, 2024
Series Of Fact Checks Found Moreno’s Excuses “False”
Columbus, OH – Despite multiple fact checks finding Bernie Moreno’s excuses “false” after reports showed he destroyed evidence he was legally required to keep to get out of paying his employees the overtime they’d earned, Moreno is still repeating lies he knows aren’t true.
Moreno’s lies follow another lawsuit surfacing against him last week – further complicating the image he is trying to sell Ohioans.
Read Moreno’s lies, and the facts, for yourself:
MORENO’S LIE: “…a regulation change…made the ruling retroactive.” [WOSU, 15:11, 2/26/24]
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.” [WKYC, 2/12/24]
MORENO’S LIE: “We didn’t have any records that showed that [my employees] worked overtime…” [WOSU, 15:50, 2/26/24]
FACT CHECK: “Moreno conceded that in late 2020, he had destroyed paper copies of monthly reports containing information about overtime hours worked by some employees…a jury found in August 2022 that [Moreno’s employees] had proven ‘by a preponderance of the evidence’ that they had worked overtime hours, and that his employers knew that.” [Business Insider, 1/19/24]
Refresh your memory on the lawsuits and lies clouding Bernie Moreno’s candidacy:
- Business Insider: Trump-backed Ohio Senate candidate shredded documents as he faced a lawsuit 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
- WCMH: Fact check: Did Senate candidate Bernie Moreno shred documents accusing him of wage theft?
- Daily Beast: This GOP Senate Hopeful’s Self-Made Story Has a Darker Side
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