After eight years of litigation, a group of construction workers finally received the last of their stolen wages — the culmination of a case that began as a simple overtime dispute and unraveled into one of the most elaborate labor exploitation schemes in recent New York City history.
On the morning of March 26, a handful of construction workers gathered to receive what had taken decades to earn and years of litigation to recover. Some had nearly given up. One had not lived to see it.
The checks represented the final payment in a $4.5 million settlement from a class-action lawsuit against Long Island Concrete, a Queens-based construction company that systematically underpaid immigrant laborers through a shell company called Regulator…