Kyle Dunphey

(Utah News Dispatch) State officials have received thousands of complaints related to residential construction fraud in the last several years, a problem the Utah Department of Commerce says has cost residents a combined $32 million.

On Monday, the state announced a new task force bringing together officials from the department, the attorney general’s office, lawmakers, industry representatives and law enforcement to fight the growing problem, which experts say is a byproduct of the state’s rapid growth and new construction.

Residential construction fraud is a broad term that can include contractors not finishing work they were paid to do, false invoicing (when contractors submit invoices for work they didn’t do), manipulating the bidding process, or lying about qualificati

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