(KNSI) — A St. Cloud contractor accused of taking money from homeowners for renovation work that never happened is now permanently barred from the residential construction industry in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office says it secured a judgment against Ryan Pietron and his company, Affordable Home Remodeling, LLC. The judgment orders the payment of $518,000 in restitution to victims, $518,000 in civil penalties to the state, and $33,000 for the Attorney General’s Office’s costs and attorney’s fees.
The office sued Pietron and his company in October of 2025. The state says Pietron collected tens of thousands, and in some cases hundreds of thousands, of dollars from homeowners for work that was never done. Investigators located dozens of families who lost a combined $518,000. That is well above the nearly $400,000 the state estimated when the lawsuit was filed…