Encompass Building One Service Solutions

Agents from five government agencies seized business records from a major West Coast cleaning contractor this week after a yearlong investigation into possible wage, tax and insurance fraud involving janitors at supermarkets and discount stores, officials said Friday. The contractor, Arroyo Grande-based Encompass/Building One Service Solutions, provides janitors to Albertson's, Vons, Kmart, Wal-Mart, Target and other stores through a chain of subcontractors.

Agents from five government agencies seized business records from a major West Coast cleaning contractor this week after a yearlong investigation into possible wage, tax and insurance fraud involving janitors at supermarkets and discount stores, officials said Friday. The contractor, Arroyo Grande-based Encompass/Building One Service Solutions, provides janitors to Albertson's, Vons, Kmart, Wal-Mart, Target and other stores through a chain of subcontractors.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has filed tax fraud and grand theft charges against three Palmdale janitorial companies and their top officials for underpaying workers and failing to pay taxes and unemployment insurance. The companies failed to pay at least $900,000 in taxes and insurance premiums to the state, prosecutors said. They said the alleged fraud went back as far as 1997.