Stanton Heights: Ex-builder faces bankruptcy fraud
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The former president of a Pittsburgh home improvement firm was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on a charge of bankruptcy fraud.
Andrew F. Andros, 44, former owner of Builders Choice Remodeling in Stanton Heights, filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in November 1999 and was discharged in April 2001.
Throughout the proceedings, according to the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS, he concealed the existence of various financial accounts with Ameritrade, E Trade and Spectra Fund.
The U.S. attorney's office would not reveal how much money he had invested in the accounts.
Mr. Andros has been in trouble before for fraud. In 2001, the state attorney general's office won more than $30,000 in restitution for victims of a home improvement scam perpetrated by Mr. Andros between 1997 and 1999.
During that investigation, Mr. Andros filed the Chapter 7 bankruptcy that is the subject of the new federal case.
First Published April 7, 2006 12:00 am
