Allegheny Wood Products owners indicted

By Larry Adams
Woodworking Network
October 21, 2024
Category: Business & Politics
Region: United States, US East

Owners of the closed Allegheny Wood Products company in West Virginia have been indicted on a multitude of felony counts of larceny, according to news reports. News station WHSV in Harrisburg, Virginia, citing Hardy County Circuit Court documents, said that owner John Crites Sr. and his children John Crites Jr. and Kelly Crites each face 12 felony charges in six cases where they are accused of allegedly defrauding loggers. According to the report, the three were charged with obtaining money by false pretenses and conspiracy to obtain money by false pretenses in each case. They are accused of not paying for the timbered logs they acquired. …Allegheny Wood Products, a 50-year-old West Virginia-based internationally known hardwood producer, closed its doors Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, and eliminated as many as 850 full-time and outside contractors.

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