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B-171001 1 (1970-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabktp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .. ...~~~~~~~~~ ......... ...... , , .... g ... .'. . 11 Ili jfli iii COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE ONITtb STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2o54 t EL.E-: S EE B-1 71001 LM089901 Dear Mr. Aspinall: Your letter of October 2, 1970, requested that we furnish you with information concerning statements that were made by Mrs. Melvin L. Jensen in a letter to you dated September 28, 1970. Mrs. Jensen stated that her son and other young men had not been paid by Mr. Leslie Lind of Palisade, Colorado, for work they had performed under contracts awarded to Mr. Lind by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. To obtain information regarding your request, we reviewed pertinent Forest Service records and interviewed Forest Service officials at the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre National Forest and at the Forest Service headquar- ters. We interviewed also Department of-Labor officials in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Lind, and Mrs.Jensen and other mothers of young men employed by Mr. Lind. The statements made by Mrs. Jensen concerned work performed under five contracts between the Forest Service and Mr. Lind, owner of the Lind Tree Service. The contracts provided that Mr. Lind's firm plant tree seedlings in the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre National Forest. Work under the contracts, for which Mr. Lind received $17,361, was started early in June 1970 and was completed late in June and early in July 1970. Mrs. Jensen and the other mothers we interviewed estimated that Mr. Lind owed about $8,000 in wages to their sons and other young men employed to plant seedlings. Mr. Lind told us that he owed a total of about $1,000 to 19 employees. Because Mrs. Jensen had previously contacted the Denver area office of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division concerning this matter, we interviewed the Denver area director for the Division. He advised us that the Division's investigation had identified at least $2,000 of unpaid wages but could not identify the total amount of unpaid wages because of Mr. Lind's inadequate wage and salary records. In view of the Department of Labor's investigation, we did not review Mr. Lind's records. Mr. Lind informed us that he did not have the money to pay the unpaid wages and that he was initiating bankruptcy action. We noted that the Department of Labor advised you by letter dated October 12, 1970, that it was requesting its Regional Solicitor in Kansas City to consider the possibility of taking legal action against Mr. Lind ............ II.I..I.IIII....III...I..I......I .tam MII UIM~ 11111011 - l

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