Buffalo News: Contractor charged with lying about being a minority/women-owned business

Aaron Besecker in the Buffalo News
November 16, 2018
Buffalo News: Contractor charged with lying about being a minority/women-owned business

Bradley Kyler, 30, owner of Bucket Pro LLC, submitted a bid to the Village of Ellicottville engineer stating that his business had that state certification, Ellicottville police said in a news release.

Bradley Kyler, 30, owner of Bucket Pro LLC, submitted a bid to the Village of Ellicottville engineer stating that his business had that state certification, Ellicottville police said in a news release.

If the village would have awarded his company the bid, it could have lost “a substantial amount of grant funding for the project,” police said. Officials did not specify on what project Kyler’s company placed a bid.

Kyler, of Salamanca, was charged with first-degree tampering with public records and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.

The case was investigated by Ellicottville police and an investigator for the New York State Foundation for Fair Contracting.

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