Doing what he can for work at such a young age is commendable, most kids these days won't be able to bring themselves to get up and go to their 4 hour shift at a mcdonalds and still complain about being broke and cost of living blah blah.
That dude is money laundering in addition to skirting paying his workers as employees. I wonder if he’s “landscaping “ illegal drugs. This idiot is going to be really sorry he decided to show up on Judge Judy. The IRS probably isn’t going to be the only government agency looking for him! 😂😂😂 I would love to know who the other person cashing those checks was and what the fight with the girlfriend was about. Please tell me Judge Judy reported this guy. 😂😂😂
If a boss has to wait for the client to pay him before he ever pays you, run. Business owners, even side ones, should be paying employees before themselves.
What is it with people giving other people their freaking pin numbers!? I am a fraud Analyst and this is the #1 thing that will NOT get you your money back.
This kid was underage, and was obviously taken advantage of by this man. I think Karma will come knocking soon in the form of the IRS and whatever agency deals with bank fraud and money laundering.
@KenyanBunnie I am in Canada, and you'd be surprised about the tools used out there that banks have to look at the patterns of your purchasing habits. We are creatures of habits, and you best believe that they use that to their advantage. And with cameras everywhere, they can have access as well. Just be safe out there.
@@alexc.7975 did I say it was right clown shoes? No. Nowhere in that did I say it was. I made an observation. YOU assigned said observation to my moral value structure.
I like how Judge Judy asking if the employer pays in cash or check. The defendant is too stupid to know why she is asking that question. She knows he is cheating on his taxes which goes to his honesty.
@Elizabeth Brower yes ma’am! I get it. I was once in school to become a paralegal, now I’m a licensed electrician. Lol. I have always enjoyed language arts though!
@Elizabeth Brower how cool! I totally agree. I’m an inside wireman. Your son is a better man than me! I salute him! He has an immensely dangerous career comparatively, however, a necessary occupation! The highest voltage I normally deal with is 480v. Sometimes 13500v. He is exposed to much higher voltages.
@@buckbundy8642 nah I got multiple friends with landscape business’s and they usually do just have up to 3 permanent workers because it’s hard to teach to do a certain way at a certain speed and get chemistry
I wonder how they get the camera angled so when the defendant and plaintiff are talking to JJ their eye contact is right in the camera even though we can't see the cameras behind her...deep thoughts...lol
JJ despite her advanced age is mentally so quick and agile. Some of these cases are so full of BS from both plaintiff/defendant a young mind like mine gets lost as the case progresses so in order to satisfy myself I watch the same case again Lolz. The way she treats plaintiffs/defendants/witnesses can be so unethical/uncalled for but they deserve it most of the time. If she's not tough she would not be able to control these unruly people . However,I notice that if you speak the truth she will treat you kindly even if you're young.
Hurry up with part 2 regardless the owner was doing bad business. He needs to be able to be able to pay his workers without depending on the customer's money. What if decide not to pay after the jobs been done? He's supposed to take the loss.
That whole third party check thing is hella sketchy. I wouldn’t have agreed to this but I’m an adult. Looks like he took advantage of a kid too young to know better.
I remember in another episode there were people in the comments saying there aren’t Americans who get for work paid by check and that only people over 60 yo write checks. All my full time jobs where I’ve been an actual payroll employee I got paid direct deposit. However when I’ve done independent contractor work on the side where I work per project I’m typically paid same day by check or in cash. This is actually common.
You tell me that guy just turned 18... Omg, he looks so mature. It's pretty sad he had to work at young age, but he clearly learned from what life gave him and became a better man.
@Leigh Hartman Yeah, but you know, some teens are playing video games all day and go to clubs witht their friends. That's why I said it's sad. I'm from Europe and here most people start working after highschool or college, untill then they don't work at all. Are you from US?
@@nowirehangers2815You sound like an ignorant racist. How do you know ANYTHING about his life after a 4 minute video ? It is completely normal for an 18 yr old to be working. Thats why certain kids are entitled and shooting up schools & churches now ! They feel the world owes them something when really they should get up off their lazy @sses and GO TO WORK…typical considering their lineage of people too lazy to do their own work so they kidnap and force others to do it for them. Pathetic, lazy and cowardly
If the boss is a week late with your paycheck, quit. If he says he can't pay you until the client pays him, quit. If he declares bankruptcy, you might not get paid at all.
As soon as he said landscaping I knew it. A lot of my buddies have been screwed over by landscaping jobs cuz they just assume since you’re young you won’t speak up.
When he said "about two or three" I knew he was on some bull. Who loses count between two and three?!! A normal person will say "two" employees or "three" employees.
Why would his boss have access to his bank account? Not victim blaming, but I hope the young man won’t do that again, going forward. His boss is terrible
These so-called “business owners” need to realize that this whole “you’ll get paid when I get paid” nonsense doesn’t fly. Your employees deserve reliable, consistent pay because they aren’t the business owners; they aren’t assuming the financial risk of your business ventures. And if you’ve been operating for 7-8 years and you’re still running paycheck to paycheck, you’ve got a serious problem.
17/18. Looks more like 47/48. All those terrible chemicals and hormones you are allowed to put into your food in America really do a number on your people.
As a business owner you pay your employees weekly, daily, monthly on a set schedule not on the customer says you schedule. My husband owned a construction company and wether job was done and he was paid or not his employees got paid daily or weekly. Your employees are not the owners they are hourly/daily paid employees, customer payments have nothing to do with them being paid. Owner makes , usually, alot more than hourly employees, so they are paid differently. At beginning of each job my husband would put enough money aside to pay his employees weekly, usually for 40 hrs, and him being paid by customer didn't effect his employees pay at all. if you pay you employee by the job, or stage of completion on job then that is pretty much a subcontractor and not your employee and that pay schedule is completely different. If someone is hourly then they are paid weekly/biweekly for hours worked at end of certain the period. Business owner here is just lazy, not good at management of money and doesn't know or care how to run a up and up business. Man pays/hires teenagers or hard on luck folks cause he thinks he can get away with this crap and apparently until now has been. I bet if IRS audited him he would be crying and wishing he ran a above board business.
i have seen people buy house for a dirt cheap legal price while the bulk of the price was payed unofficially , and one person payed the dirt cheap price , then sued the sellers in court when they refused to give him the house without the unofficial payment , he won the case , company had to pay a huge sum as tax fraud to the government and he got rent equal to the number of months that the house was given to him
When I was 14, I hired on to cut grass and the owner sent me out with his son to show me the ropes. The son brought his GF along and they stayed in the van and made out while I did all the grass cutting. I did one lawn and then walked home. No way was I going to do all the work while the kid made out with his GF all day. I never got paid but it did teach me a valuable lesson about crooked people.
I don’t understand…jj stated the signatures don’t match (and we all got to see they clearly didn’t, no expert needed) but she doesn’t believe him when he says his signature was forged??? and that he needs to prove it? what the hell did I miss???
You can’t even make out Doctor‘s handwriting and she’s worried about this young man’s penmanship? I wonder if she’d say that to all the highly prominent doctors that use chicken scratch as handwriting.
Doctors’ handwriting is supposed to be quick and somewhat legible (even if it’s only to the doctor) for medical records where proving identity isn’t really required; the penmanship JJ is talking about is for proving one’s identity when signing a document, it doesn’t need to be legible, just consistent, so you need to be able to write it the same over and over again, if you practise writing your signature, you are improving your penmanship.
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Lol that kid came with receipts. Kept better records then the adult “business man”
Yeah…you don’t really want business records when you’re up to shenanigans like this guy.
This is so disgusting. This man should go to jail. It’s so disheartening the way he treated this young man
Yeah, for it is fraud and a federal offense to take someone's identity in such a way. Bank fraud is a federal felony.
Matlock and the SLUMLOAD rant comes to mind!
If you can't afford to pay your workers then you can't afford to be business.
You can’t afford to have workers if you can’t afford to pay them. You could have a business where you’re the only person working it
He can afford to be in business, he just can’t afford to have that many employees.
Sounds like you need a new pimp.
@@virginiakallweit9177 I bet you work in radio, not tv.
@@Whatthafukc what a fucking weird thing to say
The grandmother looks absolutely fabulous, not a wrinkle in sight 😮 🍷 #aginggoals
#Agelessbeauty That’s how the women in my family are. I agree Quinn #aginggoals🥰
Preparation H treatment
I was just thinking the same thing she is beautiful 😍
You know the saying right lol😉❤️
She looks great. More like his mother not a grandmother
I hate to see people like him get screwed. He is a nice kid trying to fend for himself and make a living. People are so evil
We have to encourage these kids and reward them for working hard! I would hire this kid in a heartbeat.
Wow exemplary kid; I applaud him. Well done going man❤❤ and all the best
Doing what he can for work at such a young age is commendable, most kids these days won't be able to bring themselves to get up and go to their 4 hour shift at a mcdonalds and still complain about being broke and cost of living blah blah.
@@DivusMagusyou’re hella cringe bro
Giving his employees a 3rd party check seems like a way to skirt paying taxes. Any accountants out there know if that is possible?
Actually it has to do with Virginia labor laws
@@kimberlymoxley104
Which would be what?
The State encourages paying people under the table so they dont get the taxes
That dude is money laundering in addition to skirting paying his workers as employees. I wonder if he’s “landscaping “ illegal drugs. This idiot is going to be really sorry he decided to show up on Judge Judy. The IRS probably isn’t going to be the only government agency looking for him! 😂😂😂 I would love to know who the other person cashing those checks was and what the fight with the girlfriend was about. Please tell me Judge Judy reported this guy. 😂😂😂
Also money laundering.
Yea
The plaintiff seems solid. No bullshit. He just speaks the truth. The defendant is a lying creep.
Emphasis on creep... What was he doing to that big kid? Something smells fishy and inappropriate.
You got what you deserve. Trying to cheat that poor boy,shame on you.
Lol. I saw no ending to it
If a boss has to wait for the client to pay him before he ever pays you, run. Business owners, even side ones, should be paying employees before themselves.
True.if management doesn’t collect fees upfront then it’s negligence.
exactly…means the company is barely keeping their head above water which means bad or unscrupulous management
What is it with people giving other people their freaking pin numbers!?
I am a fraud Analyst and this is the #1 thing that will NOT get you your money back.
PREACH
This kid was underage, and was obviously taken advantage of by this man. I think Karma will come knocking soon in the form of the IRS and whatever agency deals with bank fraud and money laundering.
I don't do it! But wow, didn't know that they won't give you your money back.
@KenyanBunnie I am in Canada, and you'd be surprised about the tools used out there that banks have to look at the patterns of your purchasing habits. We are creatures of habits, and you best believe that they use that to their advantage. And with cameras everywhere, they can have access as well. Just be safe out there.
What a horrible business practice. I would imagine because he can't keep accurate records he is committing federal and state tax fraud.
Let me guess.. you’re a Trumpster?
So are his employees.
So are his employees who aren’t claiming their wages.
It’s a lawn care business.
Most work this way.
@@buckbundy8642 does that make it right? “It’s always been this way” is such a cop-out.
@@alexc.7975 did I say it was right clown shoes?
No. Nowhere in that did I say it was. I made an observation. YOU assigned said observation to my moral value structure.
I like how Judge Judy asking if the employer pays in cash or check. The defendant is too stupid to know why she is asking that question. She knows he is cheating on his taxes which goes to his honesty.
Geesh y the poor kid gotta be stupid!? Your rude but I'm sure its a normal thing for you too be.🤷🏼
That never came up lol.
That’s your opinion.
We never even got a verdict.
@@buckbundy8642 there is a part 2.
@@buckbundy8642 there’s multiple parts
@@sleepyidiot2010 yea. But she’s watching this part. Not the part were that happened…
18 what? He looks like a cleancut 30 year old businessman 🥰. His grandmother looks so young and she’s beautiful!
Good kid! Proud of him. Hope he’s doing well right now ❤️
JJ sounds so gentle and kinda sad when she said “I don’t know that”
The kid is well prepared
God bless the grandmother for taking care of him
Most important lesson of all, know who you can trust and family is the best place to start, normally.
@@trevorhart545*NORMALLY*
Trying to take advantage of that teenager and thought he would get away with it.
Nope. 😎👍🏾🤟🏾✊🏾
What's scary....this is common practice in VIRGINIA
I didn’t see an end to it. Am I missing something?
Sign over a payment from a customer to an employee? Ok my brain just melted. Talk about unethical business practice.
It’s called money laundering.
This is Virginia. The laws are different
*INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BOTH OF THESE GUYS, IT'S VERY SIMPLE TO READ AND JUDGE JUDY IS A MASTER AT IT.*
When people say “approximately, about” I always chuckle.
@Elizabeth Brower right! language is fun! 🤣🤣🤣
@Elizabeth Brower yes ma’am! I get it. I was once in school to become a paralegal, now I’m a licensed electrician. Lol. I have always enjoyed language arts though!
@Elizabeth Brower how cool! I totally agree. I’m an inside wireman. Your son is a better man than me! I salute him! He has an immensely dangerous career comparatively, however, a necessary occupation! The highest voltage I normally deal with is 480v. Sometimes 13500v. He is exposed to much higher voltages.
@Elizabeth Brower yes ma’am! As a fellow parent, I wouldn’t want to know either! 🤣🤣🤣
"you should work on your penmanship a little bit" always a jab to the ribs. Savage JJ.
Sounds like the defendant needs an IRS audit.
The guy supposedly has a business but he has no business account? Riiight
I wouldn’t have an account either if all I had was 1.5 employees and it was just lawn care.
@@buckbundy8642 nah I got multiple friends with landscape business’s and they usually do just have up to 3 permanent workers because it’s hard to teach to do a certain way at a certain speed and get chemistry
The tax man will catch up with him LOL
I wonder how they get the camera angled so when the defendant and plaintiff are talking to JJ their eye contact is right in the camera even though we can't see the cameras behind her...deep thoughts...lol
so there’s a camera above her head but positioned slightly infront of her face, which is then angled towards the parties accordingly 😊
@@100BD ah that makes sense! 😎
JJ despite her advanced age is mentally so quick and agile. Some of these cases are so full of BS from both plaintiff/defendant a young mind like mine gets lost as the case progresses so in order to satisfy myself I watch the same case again Lolz.
The way she treats plaintiffs/defendants/witnesses can be so unethical/uncalled for but they deserve it most of the time. If she's not tough she would not be able to control these unruly people . However,I notice that if you speak the truth she will treat you kindly even if you're young.
Very well spoken smart young man
Such a nice wellspoken young man, 18 and speak better than most adults. He was calm and collected! Hope it works out for him!
I dont know why she's so sharp with the plantiff. You can see in an instant hes a decent guy.
Hurry up with part 2 regardless the owner was doing bad business. He needs to be able to be able to pay his workers without depending on the customer's money. What if decide not to pay after the jobs been done? He's supposed to take the loss.
Part 2 and 3 are out, Put your glasses on.
@@kyamasmith Get her rude ass!!! 🤣🤣
@@kyamasmith right! Tf
It was a joke and it wasn't even posted yet when I commented y'all need to get a Fn life
@@kyamasmith smh lol it was joke, why do you care lol.
omg, this landscaper is a fraud. what in the world was he thinking signing over third party checks to an employee. He needs his license taken away.
That whole third party check thing is hella sketchy. I wouldn’t have agreed to this but I’m an adult. Looks like he took advantage of a kid too young to know better.
Waiting patiently for part 2 💅🏽
Okay I’m lying 🤥 Can y’all please hurry with part 2
I remember in another episode there were people in the comments saying there aren’t Americans who get for work paid by check and that only people over 60 yo write checks. All my full time jobs where I’ve been an actual payroll employee I got paid direct deposit. However when I’ve done independent contractor work on the side where I work per project I’m typically paid same day by check or in cash. This is actually common.
Paid in cash. Ill wager he is defrauding the IRS. Your can see it a mile away. You can smell him a mile away. Someone report him
So is the kid. Not like he voluntarily paid a cent in to his taxes.
Whether or not the customer paid, the boss is responsible to pay his empoyees.
This defendant reminds me of that SLUM lord in that brilliant Matlock episode "The Assault" The "men like him" rant was AWESOME hahaha.
You tell me that guy just turned 18... Omg, he looks so mature. It's pretty sad he had to work at young age, but he clearly learned from what life gave him and became a better man.
@Leigh Hartman Yeah, but you know, some teens are playing video games all day and go to clubs witht their friends. That's why I said it's sad. I'm from Europe and here most people start working after highschool or college, untill then they don't work at all. Are you from US?
Has to support his mother and all her kids from those baby daddies
@@nowirehangers2815You sound like an ignorant racist. How do you know ANYTHING about his life after a 4 minute video ? It is completely normal for an 18 yr old to be working. Thats why certain kids are entitled and shooting up schools & churches now ! They feel the world owes them something when really they should get up off their lazy @sses and GO TO WORK…typical considering their lineage of people too lazy to do their own work so they kidnap and force others to do it for them. Pathetic, lazy and cowardly
Why would you ever give anyone, even an employer, your bank account number and PIN number?!?!
I know ridiculous
I can understand if you account bank account for direct deposit but pin number no way ?
*MONEY LAUNDERING*
Grandmother!!! She looks so young
Makes you wonder how old the mother was qhen having her child.
Nothing wrong with it. Stuff happens.
@@xToronto416x 3 kids before I was 25. Worked out great for my lot they had young grandparents.
@@sshms414 nothing wrong with it. I mean , people can find a problem, but it's how life plays sometimes. I'm sure you are happy with the kids!
@@xToronto416x and grandkids now 🥰
Prep h
I love that this young man wor a shirt and tie.very respectful
18 again. They are eventually going to have to READJUST that age of majority, somehow.
watching this ON CHRISTMAS! Fancy that, at random somewhat, too!
If the boss is a week late with your paycheck, quit. If he says he can't pay you until the client pays him, quit. If he declares bankruptcy, you might not get paid at all.
This man is a bad small business owner.
As soon as he said landscaping I knew it. A lot of my buddies have been screwed over by landscaping jobs cuz they just assume since you’re young you won’t speak up.
Never ever work by the job in landscaping! There’s already so much abuse in this business it’s by the hour or nothing.
2mins in and I’ve sussed Mr Dougherty he’s a Scammer !!!!!!! Taking advantage of workers
My intuition vibe was right
Who runs business like this??? Grandma didn't think it was weird. I would never allow any of that!!!
I see a bright future ahead for that plaintiff, I hope he is doing well.
2:34 guy in the backs face lmao
Wow scamming a child and you are a adult smh!
There’s a special place in hell for grownass adults who go out of their way to victimize children absolutely disgusting
When he said "about two or three" I knew he was on some bull. Who loses count between two and three?!! A normal person will say "two" employees or "three" employees.
I thought this was a clear cut case til i read the comments.. so i rewatched it all.. I See it now 😂😂😂
Well you better know that something is crooked with the so call boss
The plaintiff is a honest person, I hope you are doing very well sir.
Its only taken 1:13 for boss man's answer to change. So does he have 1 or 3 full-time workers?
I choked on my food when he said Virginia is cheaper omg no it's not it's the worst place I've ever living Ohio is cheaper😂😂😂
I love the show
Grandma is great ❤ go JJ ☺️
That employer was scaly paying people after a job was completed. People shud ne pd daily or per hr.
FRAUDRULANT
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Always be careful if you get paid in cash. Double edged sword
I sure hope the IRS was watching this when it first aired.
About 2 or 3 employees? You would think if it was so few, you would know whether you had 2 employees or 3 employees....
that kid looks more put together than most guys twice his age
Why would his boss have access to his bank account? Not victim blaming, but I hope the young man won’t do that again, going forward.
His boss is terrible
These so-called “business owners” need to realize that this whole “you’ll get paid when I get paid” nonsense doesn’t fly. Your employees deserve reliable, consistent pay because they aren’t the business owners; they aren’t assuming the financial risk of your business ventures.
And if you’ve been operating for 7-8 years and you’re still running paycheck to paycheck, you’ve got a serious problem.
He couldnt last one year at that job. Wtf.?
Damn. Grandma could pass for his sister.
17/18. Looks more like 47/48. All those terrible chemicals and hormones you are allowed to put into your food in America really do a number on your people.
As a business owner you pay your employees weekly, daily, monthly on a set schedule not on the customer says you schedule. My husband owned a construction company and wether job was done and he was paid or not his employees got paid daily or weekly. Your employees are not the owners they are hourly/daily paid employees, customer payments have nothing to do with them being paid. Owner makes , usually, alot more than hourly employees, so they are paid differently. At beginning of each job my husband would put enough money aside to pay his employees weekly, usually for 40 hrs, and him being paid by customer didn't effect his employees pay at all. if you pay you employee by the job, or stage of completion on job then that is pretty much a subcontractor and not your employee and that pay schedule is completely different. If someone is hourly then they are paid weekly/biweekly for hours worked at end of certain the period. Business owner here is just lazy, not good at management of money and doesn't know or care how to run a up and up business. Man pays/hires teenagers or hard on luck folks cause he thinks he can get away with this crap and apparently until now has been. I bet if IRS audited him he would be crying and wishing he ran a above board business.
The Defendent is shady AF.
Why did he give his boss his pin number??
i have seen people buy house for a dirt cheap legal price while the bulk of the price was payed unofficially , and one person payed the dirt cheap price , then sued the sellers in court when they refused to give him the house without the unofficial payment , he won the case , company had to pay a huge sum as tax fraud to the government and he got rent equal to the number of months that the house was given to him
Grandmother???? I thought she was the mother! Wow.
I can tell by the comment nobody has watched the continued episodes. WILD!
When I was 14, I hired on to cut grass and the owner sent me out with his son to show me the ropes. The son brought his GF along and they stayed in the van and made out while I did all the grass cutting. I did one lawn and then walked home. No way was I going to do all the work while the kid made out with his GF all day. I never got paid but it did teach me a valuable lesson about crooked people.
That guy sounds shady
Never get paid by the job, always hourly!word to the wise!other wise you will get cheated!
Why would they sue John Cleese???
I don’t understand…jj stated the signatures don’t match (and we all got to see they clearly didn’t, no expert needed) but she doesn’t believe him when he says his signature was forged??? and that he needs to prove it? what the hell did I miss???
The young man seems to have his head screwed on.
BOSSES ARE ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO PAY EMPLOYEES FIRST.
Why the employer not in jail
Juicy caseeee
Very very dodgy business practices
Wow his grandmother looks so young
That kid looks like hes in his late 30s
She’s a GRANDMOTHER?? How the hell, my mom even looks like HER mother .and she’s only in her 40s
His grandmother looks like Jim Jones' mother...😮
You can’t even make out Doctor‘s handwriting and she’s worried about this young man’s penmanship? I wonder if she’d say that to all the highly prominent doctors that use chicken scratch as handwriting.
No, she would not!
Doctors’ handwriting is supposed to be quick and somewhat legible (even if it’s only to the doctor) for medical records where proving identity isn’t really required; the penmanship JJ is talking about is for proving one’s identity when signing a document, it doesn’t need to be legible, just consistent, so you need to be able to write it the same over and over again, if you practise writing your signature, you are improving your penmanship.
It’s less about his penmanship and more about the fact at first it looked like different signatures on the checks. Y’all daft or something?
Pretty sure its Illegal to pay in cash unless he is a subcontractor
He is. He has a lawn care business and 2 underage employees who work part time. He’s paying them by the job.
He need to do voice overs for cartoons frfr
Sounds wrong to me
When judge Judy said its an interesting case, i knew something fishy is going on besides the work
Grandmother!? Looks like his sister. Wow so pretty.
HE"S A HACK
I thought that 18 year old was atleast 35 😳