Business Owners Sentenced For Stealing $120K From Workers

Westbury meat-processing facility owners were sentenced on Tuesday for their involvement in to failing to properly pay workers and falsifying payroll records to conceal up to $120,555 in wage theft, according to the New York Attorney General's Office.

Roy S. Tuccillo Sr. who owned and operated Diversified Processors, Inc. and Processors Inc., located at 32 Urban Ave., alongside Roy Tuccillo Jr. failed to adequately pay workers overtime and minimum wages from 2012 to 2017.

Roy Tuccillo Sr., was sentenced to three years of felony probation, the restitution payment of $120,555 and an additional $500 fine.. Roy Tuccillo Jr., Diversified Processors, Inc., and Processors, Inc., were each sentenced to conditional discharges and a $500 fine.

An Attorney General’s investigation revealed the men exploited workers in several ways:

• Telling workers that they would be paid only for their first 40 hours of work per week, even though they often worked 60 or more hours.
• Failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance despite the many work hazards and history of workers injuries at the facility. The Worker’s Compensation Board issued a Stop-Work order in 2016 because the facility did not have worker’s compensation insurance.
• Failing to retain the time cards that workers used to punch in and out, and then deliberately falsifying those workers’ hours by using several different payroll provider companies.

“Workers are entitled to a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work,” Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a press release.

Roy S. Tuccillo Sr., Diversified Processors, Inc., and Processors Inc., pleaded guilty on March 27 to fourth-degree grand larceny and failure to pay wages. Roy Tuccillo Jr. also pleaded guilty on March 27 to failure to pay wages for his involvement.

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