{"id":7945,"date":"2021-11-17T19:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:58:23","slug":"businessman-from-san-mateo-declares-himself-not-at-risk-of-payments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/businessman-from-san-mateo-declares-himself-not-at-risk-of-payments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo businessman pleads not guilty to non-payment to workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360] \/ Bay City News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 37-year-old businessman has pleaded not guilty to 33 counts of grand larceny and other charges for allegedly running a hemp farm in Half Moon Bay where his employees worked without pay for two months.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company was shut down by state officials earlier this year, San Mateo County prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houston resident David Wayne Jenkins Jr. was the owner of Castle Management, also known as Castillo Seed, a company that operated the hemp farm from January 2020 until it officially closed in March, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors said the company was unprofitable and ran out of money, but Jenkins had his employees work from December 2020 to January 2021 without pay while promising that payments would come soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the District Attorney's Office, he also withheld taxes and paychecks without notifying state employment officials, and lost workers' compensation insurance in late December for failing to pay company premiums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he continued to make employees work without insurance until the state Department of Industrial Relations closed the workplace in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced the charges against Jenkins on Tuesday and thanked Judith Guerrero, executive director of the local nonprofit Coastside Hope, as well as County Supervisor Don Horsley for bringing the case to his office's attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors said they ultimately identified 33 victims in the case who lost a total of $138,000 in unpaid wages, of which Jenkins paid about $107,000 in restitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenkins made his initial court appearance Tuesday morning, pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is out of custody on his own recognizance, according to the District Attorney's Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Choose Local: Application to support local commerce in San Mateo<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por Pamela Cruz. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360] \/ Bay City News Un empresario de 37 a\u00f1os se declar\u00f3 inocente de 33 cargos de hurto mayor, entre otros, por presuntamente administrar una granja de c\u00e1\u00f1amo en Half Moon Bay en la que sus empleados trabajaron sin paga durante dos meses.\u00a0 La compa\u00f1\u00eda fue cerrada por los […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7947,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}