On Nov. 23, 2016, an inspector from the U.S. Department of Labor arrived at a Marriott hotel under construction in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was there to examine Par 2 Contractors, LLC.
The supervisor for Par 2 “was cagey,” the inspector wrote later. He didn’t want to answer questions about what he was paid; neither did three employees who were interviewed that day, the inspector reported.
The Labor Department now alleges that Par 2 is the successor to another company called Paragon Contractors Corp. — a company operated by members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.