“It’s not like he’s gone unpunished, Your Honour he has and is wearing the consequences of his actions which serves as a form of retribution and specific deterrence,” Mr English said.īut the prosecutor fought against a non-conviction. He asked for a non-conviction order, partly because he said a conviction would cause the Sydney man difficulty obtaining government contracts and he’d already had “a significant fall from grace”. On Thursday (8 September), barrister Phillip English said his 63-year-old client was now bankrupt and was very remorseful and upset over what he had done. Young continued to stand by his version of events for some weeks afterwards. The administrator accepted the document as genuine and transferred the money. READ ALSO Former Gungahlin United boss found guilty of stealing more than $31,000 from club He forged two signatures on the document from people who didn’t work with the government and forwarded it to the administrator to show the company was operating and get his employees paid, even though the company was not operational. That July, Young was winding up his company and had a novation document to transfer work from it to a new company he was starting, and while he signed the document, the government had not. In 2018, Landscape Direct had contracts with the ACT Government, including maintaining parkland areas at barbecues. He spent 20 years as the director of Landscape Direct before it became insolvent, but at the height of his success, he had 70 employees and an annual turnover of about $10 million.
Young has worked on high-end projects like the Darling Harbour redevelopment in Sydney, landscaping at the Royal Military College of Duntroon, and projects overseas. Photo: Michelle Kroll.Ī formerly successful landscape architect whose company once had millions of dollars in turnover each year used a fraudulent document to claim $12,500 so he could pay his employees.īut Bruce Richard Young has managed to avoid a conviction for the charge of using a false document, with a magistrate at the ACT Magistrates Court saying it “perhaps looked like a Robin Hood-type scenario”. Bruce Richard Young, 63, was found guilty of using a false document earlier this year.
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