After FBI Raided Evans Landscaping, Employees Worried about Going to Jail

A former manager testified that employees were worried about “protecting themselves” in the wake of the FBI raid.

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A former Evans Landscaping manager testified that employees were worried about “protecting themselves” and hiring lawyers in the wake of an FBI raid on the company in 2015.

Mike Moeller, a former general manager at Evans Landscaping, testified in U.S. District Court as one of the last government witnesses in its case against prominent business owner Doug Evans.

“We talked about attorneys and if we should be getting any,” testified Moeller, who quit Evans Landscaping a few months after the raid. FBI agents raided the Newtown, Ohio business in July 2015, more than a year after launching a criminal investigation into Evans Landscaping.

Two years later, in June 2017, a grand jury indicted Doug Evans and his vice president of operations, Jim Bailey, on six charges related to wire fraud. They face up to 103 years in prison if convicted.

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