On Tuesday, the New York State Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against accused Long Island serial killer, Rex Heuermann, alleging that he failed to fulfill the payments he agreed upon after violating New York labor laws.
According to court documents filed at the Manhattan State Supreme Court, New York’s Labor Commissioner, Roberta Reardon, argued that Heuermann and his architectural firm, RH Consultants and Associates, agreed to settle for $84,945, after he underpaid his executive assistant from 2017 to 2018.
The lawsuit was settled but after paying an initial $16,385, Heuermann never paid the additional $68,560, the lawsuit alleges. The Labor Department is now seeking to recover the unpaid amount.
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As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heuermann was arrested on July 13 for the deaths of three of the four women known collectively as the “Gilgo Four.” The bodies were found within days of each other on Gilgo Beach in December 2010. All four women were buried in burlap sacks.
Heuermann has been charged with six counts of murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27; and is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Brainard-Barnes was abducted in 2007, Barthelemy in 2009, and Waterman and Costello in 2010.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty at his arraingment. He remains behind bars at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility without bail.
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[Feature Photo: Rex A. Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at least three women near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei in Suffolk County Court, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Riverhead, N.Y. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool)]
