Lawsuits have been filed against two Pittsburgh-area home improvement businesses and their owners by state Attorney General Tom Corbett claiming they charged customers for work that was not performed.
Named in the lawsuits are William and Karen Livorio of 226 Gatehouse Drive, Coraopolis, and their business, Revitalization & Funding Inc., and Wayne Scholar, 222 Stockton Ridge Drive, Cranberry, doing business as Western Pennsylvania Housing Alliance.
The Livorios are accused of taking at least $286,000 from consumers for home improvement work that was never started. The charge evolved from an investigation by the Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection of at least 33 transactions involving customers from Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Clearfield, Lawrence, Mercer and Westmoreland counties.
Corbett said his agency was granted a special injunction prohibiting the Livorios and their company from advertising or selling any home improvement or financing services in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, will have a hearing at 1:30 p.m. Monday before County Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert P. Horgos.
Scholar and his company are accused of taking at least $156,000 from consumers in Beaver and Butler counties for home improvement work that was not started or was performed in an "unprofessional" manner.
Corbett said Scholar is accused of falsely representing his company as a government-sponsored or government-related business that was able to provide "special funding" to consumers.
Scholar is accused also of operating as a mortgage broker without the required state license, failing to include the state-required three-day right to cancel in his consumer contracts and failing to register a fictitious business name with the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Beaver County Court of Common Pleas.
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