New Britain’s Wisla Express shuttle service and one of its managers have been convicted of falsifying and destroying drivers’ time sheets, federal prosecutors say.
Wisla Express, 157 Broad St., and office manager Dariusz Stzeborowski, 49, of Rocky Hill, are due back in Hartford federal court on May 17 for sentencing, the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s office says.
Stzeborowski could get as much as five years behind bars and a $250,000 fine. He already has agreed to a three-year term of supervised release during which he cannot be involved, directly or indirectly, in Wisla or any other business overseen by federal transportation regulators, prosecutors said.
Wisla Express could get up to five years’ probation and a $500,000 fine, authorities said.
According to investigators, Stzeborowski, as Wisla’s scheduler and recordskeeper, between September 2008 and September 2011 booked van and drivers on runs to and from New York’s Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports, as well as various regional tourist venues, when he knew their hours behind the wheel would exceed federal transportation rules.
In addition, prosectuors say Stzeborowski urged the drivers to falsely log in their time sheets the number of hours they were at the wheel or that they were off duty on days they actually worked.
A phone message left for Wisla’s owner Tuesday wasn’t immediately returned.
Stzeborowski couldn’t be located.
