Contractor Who Stiffed Workers on Crisafulli, Stony Brook School Projects Punished

A New Hampshire contractor who shortchanged dozens of workers on a host of state school construction projects -- including and -- was ordered last week to pay restitution.

Stephen P. Bissonnette, 45, of Salem, N.H., will be forced to repay more than $36,000 to 24 workers, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley's office.

Bissonnette was also prohibited from doing any public construction projects in the state for two years.

In December 2010, he pleaded guilty to criminal wage and payroll charges after Coakley's office went after him based on a complaint.

Bissonnette had operated Londonderry, N.H.-based Premier Caulking. In addition to Crisafulli and Stony Brook, his crews worked on schools in Danvers, Lunenberg, and Weymouth. Bissonnettee was found to have stiffed workers on pay for those projects and others from 2001 to 2005.

Crisafulli opened in 2002. Stony Brook opened in 2003.

“Employers who have the privilege of engaging in publicly funded construction projects are required by law to pay their employees the proper prevailing wages for all hours of work,” said Coakley in a statement. “Our office is committed to undertaking robust enforcement of all laws within our purview to make sure workers in the Commonwealth receive the wages that they are entitled to under the law.”