PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Another Pensacola contractor is being accused of ripping off his customers, and could also have his contractors license revoked this week if he doesn't pay back a former client.
Jesse LaCoste is the brother in law of Matthew Banks, another contractor Channel 3 looked into last week.
Banks may also lose his contractor's license for the same reasons.
The Escambia County Contractors Competency Board says they received many complaints about LaCoste.
The alleged victims claim they paid LaCoste hundreds of thousands of dollars and he never finished the jobs, in some cases, never started them.
LaCoste owns LaCoste Construction Group LLC.
The Escambia County Competency Board, which overseas contractor complaints, has issued a final order citing three violations against LaCoste and over $4,500 dollar in fines. He is also ordered to pay over $90,000 in restitution by Aug.10 to an alleged victim or he may lose his contractors license.
That alleged victim is 74-year-old Sandra Gray.
"I'm having to use my retirement money now to fix it back," Gray said.
A tree fell on Gray's house during Hurricane Sally. She eventually signed over her insurance money to LaCoste to repair it.
After writing checks over a period of time, she says he hired a roofer to fix the roof but the work never passed inspection. Other than some demo work inside the home, she says he never came back to finish the job. The house has been unlivable after LaCoste was paid over $120,000 in insurance money.
"I'll be 75 in December and I feel like this is elder abuse," Gray said. "This is a home my father built in 1948."
Another alleged victim from Pensacola, Valerie Schofield, says her home was damaged during Hurricane Sally. She says she signed over insurance money, $35,000, to LaCoste to fix it but says only the roof was finished.
"He didn't do the remainder of the work he was supposed to do," Schofield said.
Schofield is in the process of going through the Contractor Competency Board to get her money back.
Channel 3 spoke with a former member of the board about complaints that came in about LaCoste.
"Fraud and deceit is common observation," Drew Dennis, former member of the board said. "He strings things out, frontloads the job, or spikes the job to basically tether the owner."
Dennis also said LaCoste is related to Matthew Banks of Banks Construction, who is also being investigated by the competency board. He says LaCoste is Banks' brother-in-law.
Channel 3 also found at least one civil lawsuit filed by Pensacola residents Ken and Kara Brown, who claim they paid LaCoste $140,000 as a down payment to repair their home. They claim he essentially did no work under their agreement, according court documents.
Channel 3 tried to contact LaCoste on a number he had given the competency board, but there was no answer and there was no message set up.
Channel 3 also visited his office address listed on Sunbiz.org on Bayou Boulevard, but a cleaning lady came to the door and said there was no business by that name in operation.