UNION COUNTY—A scandal involving a Monroe-based construction and paving firm is making its way back.
Boggs Group of companies was barred from state contracts last year after officials pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
The FBI says Boggs illegally took millions of tax dollars by misrepresenting the company while bidding on public projects.
Now some officials say the company is collecting tax dollars again-- just under a different name.
Back in 2013, Carl Andrew Boggs walked out of federal court without a word.
He and other members of Boggs Group of companies eventually pleaded guilty last year to a multi-million dollar fraud conspiracy.
Their scheme involved a federal program for disadvantaged business enterprises, which they pretended to be by slapping stickers on their trucks at work sites.
Because of that, Boggs group is now barred from federal and state contracts in the Carolinas.
But new documents say they're getting around that.
“[The documents] do set forth what I believe to be criminal activity on the part of Boggs officials,” said South Carolina Representative Doug Brannon (R).
He says Boggs has been under a laser in the state House.
Members of the company filed to score state contracts as "Lynches River Contracting." But according to the state's Inspector General, it was the same people, with the same addresses, phone numbers and workers.
Nearly half of profits of the new company were set up to go to a fund for Boggs' family.
DOT officials tried to stop them, according to the report, but paperwork was filed again with members not named in the federal case.
There was nothing they could do.
The same thing happened in North Carolina.
Now Lynches River, which legally appears as a separate company according to NCDOT officials, has roughly $11 million in contracts in Union County and millions more in South Carolina.
It's caused Brannon and others to craft a new bill that's more specific about who's barred in a bad company.
“The situation that it is directed at is filled with illegal activity and actual corruption,” he said.
Time Warner Cable News tried calling Boggs to ask about these new allegations. TWC News also knocked on the door, but employees called police, who asked us to leave.
Both North and South Carolina say the new company has been cleared by the Federal Highway Administration, though some South Carolina officials say they aren't happy about it.
There's no evidence Lynches River Contracting is involved in any fraud in their current contracts.
Carl Andrew Boggs is facing a maximum of 25 years in prison for his part in the fraud case.