A federal judge Monday found a Sunrise software company, subject of a 2022 NBC6 investigation , “defrauded and hoodwinked” a client who the judge ordered should be paid more than $500,000 in damages.

Chetu, a 25-year-old “software solution provider” that says it generates more than $70 million in annual revenue, “concocted a scheme and fabricated hope to entrap (Blue Chip Alliance) into a new phase of work to secure more monthly fees,” the judge found.

The judge concluded Chetu “upper management — purported skilled developers — actively participated in a ‘bait and switch’ tactic and ratified or approved of the scheme that accrued routine fees at the expense of Blue Chip,” a family-owned business with 13 barbershops in the Pacific Northwest, known as “The Man Shop.”

In finding punitive

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