Based on my research this is what I found: Barbara Thorpe, under Disability Access Consultants hired a sub-contractor to do all of her ADA site inspection work for a period of time before she sold a portion of her business to Straneire. When the jobs finished, she refused to pay the sub's, even though the sub's employees were paid in full and DAC was paid in full by the clients. The clients that received the Site Surveys the contractor did included Yum! Brand Foods and many school districts. Instead of paying the subs for the work they performed, she and Chin decided to pocket the money.
In the meantime, she sells Disability Access Consultants to the Straneire family and had to pay off Chin. She asked for terms w/ Chin for the balance she owed him knowing full well there is a debt to contractor that isn't being paid. So she is using owing the contractor money as leverage with Chin so she and Straniere don't have to pay the full amount owed to Chin. Chin says he isn't going to pay the contractor and Barbara says she isn't either - each pointing the finger at each other saying "its your responsibility". The money for the ADA Site Inspections went to Barbara Thorpe and Disability Access Consultants, then part of DBYC. The contractor was left paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages and Barbara and Chin got to take the money.
Many of the clients are outraged that Disability Access Consultants used Sub's on their jobs without their knowledge or consent and many are now opening up investigations of their own regarding Barbara Thorpe and Disability Access Consultants Inc. as to why she misled them that she uses "employees only" hires sub's, then doesn't pay them. This leaves her clients exposed to many issues because with Chin and Thorpe refusing to pay for work, the Sub contractors who did the Site Inspection Survey's work are going back to the Clients and asking to be paid. Barbara Thorpe and Disability Access Consultants have opened up all sorts of issues because the Sub Contractor is now suing them all - Barbara Thorpe, Peter Chin, all their related businesses names and including her clients.
