ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO SECURES GUILTY PLEA FROM HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTOR FOR SCAMMING WESTERN NEW YORK SENIOR OUT OF MORE THAN $80,000

BUFFALO, N.Y. (November 7, 2008) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the guilty plea of a Western New York home improvement contractor who repeatedly pressured an 88-year-old widow into paying more than $80,000 for home improvements that were never done or done in a way described by outside experts as “grossly substandard.”

Bryan Boone, 47, of Kenmore Avenue in Kenmore, pleaded guilty to Grand Larceny in the third degree (class D felony) before Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski in State Supreme Court. He faces up to seven years in prison and was remanded to the Erie County Correctional Facility pending sentencing on February 10, 2009. More...