An Amityville contractor has pleaded guilty to stealing wages from employees who worked on a public school project in West Islip, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced that Rand Strollo, 62, of Amityville, pleaded guilty to petit larceny for failing to pay legally required prevailing wages to employees working on public works projects. As part of the plea, Strollo is required to repay a total of $13,380 to his former workers.
“My office’s Labor Unit, working together with the Department of Labor, returned to the hard-working employees the proper wages owed to them by this company,” Tierney said in a statement. “We will continue to fight against the fraudulent and illegal practices of contractors when they fail to pay employees for their honest labor.”
According to investigators, between April 12 and May 30, 2024, Strollo, the owner of RJ Painting Inc., served as a contractor on a public works project at Masera Middle School. The contract required him to pay employees the prevailing wage rate for all hours worked, including holidays. Prosecutors said Strollo failed to pay workers for the full number of hours they worked and did not properly compensate them for work performed on Memorial Day.
The District Attorney’s Office further determined that Strollo underpaid employees on two additional public works projects completed between 2022 and 2024, also failing to meet prevailing wage requirements.
Strollo was arrested on November 21, 2025, by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. On January 13, 2026, he pleaded guilty to one count of petit larceny, a Class A misdemeanor, before Acting County Court Judge Edward J. Hennessey.
As a condition of the plea, Strollo was ordered to repay $6,136 to 12 employees from the Masera Middle School project and an additional $7,244 to workers from the other public works projects, totaling $13,380 in restitution. Strollo was represented by attorney Brian Griffin.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Adriana Noyola of the Financial Crimes Bureau, with investigative assistance from District Attorney Investigator Daniel Herzog.
A criminal charge is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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