Kerry developer in New York faces fraud charges over union benefit contributions

Navillus is one of the biggest building firms in New York. Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty Images 

An Irish brother and sister who run one of New York’s largest building firms have been charged with scheming to cheat union benefit funds out of contributions.

Documents filed in a federal court in Brooklyn show that Donal O’Sullivan, the founder and president of Navillus, his sister Helen O’Sullivan, the company’s treasurer, and Padraig Naughton, its financial controller, have been charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement from employee benefit funds, submission of false remittance reports to union benefit funds and conspiracy to commit those crimes.