A federal jury in New York convicted three former Navillus Contracting executives of embezzling from union benefits funds by evading required contributions for its workers.
Following a three-week trial, Donal O’Sullivan, Navillus’ founder and former CEO and president; Padraig Naughton, the company’s former financial controller; and Helen O’Sullivan, a former payroll administrator, were convicted in U.S. federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 22 on 11 counts including wire fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement from employee benefits funds, submission of false remittance reports to union benefits funds and conspiracy to commit those crimes.