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Resident describes alleged contractor fraud, says district attorney office contact was difficult
Summary
During public comment, Mary Black told commissioners she and her husband experienced an alleged contractor fraud and said efforts to get help from county district attorney staff were unsatisfactory; commissioners and staff offered referrals to the state attorney general’s consumer-protection office and to county staff for follow-up.
Mary Black, a Washington County resident, used the public-comment period at the county commissioners’ meeting to describe what she called a fraud involving a contractor and to say she had difficulty getting assistance from the District Attorney’s Office.
Black told the board that a contractor who visited her home in December 2022 pressured the couple to pay $10,000 on the spot and later provided an estimate she said lacked itemized details and showed a single bottom-line figure of $69,800. “I asked him for an itemized…
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