An unlicensed contractor who pleaded guilty last month to failing to fulfill the terms of a contract and performing home improvements without a license has a lesson for other would-be renovators.
“Do not be influenced by foolish money because it will never be yours in the end,” Aleksander Usherenko said in a handwritten statement to The Baltimore Examiner.
Usherenko on Nov. 27 pleaded guilty in Baltimore District Court to two counts of doing renovation work without a license and one count of failing to fulfill the terms of a contract. He was put on three years of supervised probation and ordered to repay a total of $100,000 in restitution.
Usherenko was to pay $18,000 on Nov. 28, but didn?t make the payment to the Division of Parole and Probation until more than a week later, according to documents provided to The Examiner.
Two official bank checks in the amount of $9,000 each were purchased by Usherenko?s friend, Nicholas Papathanassiou, on Dec. 6.
And, Usherenko said, he is prepared to make the rest of the court-ordered restitution to Baltimore homeowners Paul Genovese and Michael Mohktarian, both of who hired Usherenko. Usherenko is required to pay $1,134 each month to the Division of Parole and Probation.
NeitherGenovese nor Mohktarian has received any money, they said.
Baltimore State?s Attorney David Mabrey, who prosecuted Usherenko, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
