Theft charged in city contracts
Source: By Jim Dooley, Honolulu Advertiser (HI), Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The operator of a company providing janitorial and landscaping services to the city "stole from the City and County and the taxpayers," a prosecutor said yesterday after Nelson Aguinaldo was indicted on six counts of theft, racketeering and money laundering. "I have no comment," said Aguinaldo, president of Diversified Janitorial Services Inc., in a brief telephone interview. …. The United Public Workers Union, which represents city blue-collar workers, has complained in the past that the city failed to enforce the prevailing wage requirement when it outsourced janitorial and landscaping jobs to the private sector.