The Press of Atlantic City reports a contractor received almost $2.6 million for repairs it made earlier this year at multiple public housing communities in the city, only for its service on underground gas lines at Stanley Holmes Village to be deemed “bad work” with “massive leaks and potential system failures” by the Atlantic City Housing Authority.
Representatives of the company, EJustice Mechanical LLC, however, say they are being wrongfully blamed by the authority, which is operating under federal oversight and facing a lawsuit from nearly 90 Stanley Holmes tenants over living conditions.
EJustice Mechanical had registered as a business in New Jersey just weeks before being hired by the authority in February on an emergency basis without competitive bidding.