The CEO of a Chantilly-based government contractor will pay over $1 million in restitution to eight former employees after pleading guilty in Fairfax County, Virginia’s largest-ever wage theft case, Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said Monday.

Thomas Burns was the CEO of SP Global, which specialized in technology implementation. Starting in October 2020, the company stopped paying its 40-plus workers.

According to a news release from Descano’s office, Burns and other executives promised for months that payment and backpay was coming, saying there were issues with international banking regulations and travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.

Employees worked without pay for months, consoled by those promises, Descano said, before eventually quitting without ever being compensate

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