PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island roofing contractor has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison after admitting to defrauding Home Depot out of more than half a million dollars.
Attorney General Zachary A. Cunha of Rhode Island announced that Luiyi Taveras-Garcia of Providence, R.I., participated in a scheme that used stolen or fraudulently created business credit accounts to defraud Home Depot of $600,000 in building, roofing, electrical, plumbing and other contractor supplies at stores in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.