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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile contractor has been sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of grand theft and contractor fraud, Ginger Bowden Madden, the state attorney for the First Judicial Court of Florida, said.
Jesse Lacoste was convicted of grand theft over $20,000 and contractor fraud over $20,000 and has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison, followed by five years probation. He was also ordered to pay $506,435.81 in restitution to the victim in this case and is banned from working in the construction industry.
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A release said Lacoste applied for his contractor license using fraudulent and omitted information. He then used the fraudulently obtained license to and other “contractual misrepresentations” to get more than $157,000 from one victim.
“(The) defendant received money in excess of the value of the work performed, appropriated the money for his own purposes and then abandoned the victim’s residential construction,” the release said…