Regional · Norwood, MARegional · 823 Pleasant Street, Norwood, MA
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The first thing on SMI Demolition's public record is a settlement. In August 2025, the company and its majority owner, Charles Smith Jr. of Sharon, agreed to pay $2.01 million to resolve federal False Claims Act allegations. Reports of the announcement say SMI falsely certified to the Small Business Administration that no owner had pleaded guilty to a felony involving fraud when it applied for two PPP loans and an Economic Injury Disaster Loan — Smith had pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud in 2018. The Justice Department settlement recitals identify SMI as a Norwood corporation and Smith as owning at least 20% of it. The earlier case sits in the public record as well. ViolationTracker's entry for the company lists a $703,330 fraud penalty in 2018, tied to the federal sentencing in Boston of a demolition and asbestos abatement company and its owner. A separate entry records a $9,570 state penalty in 2013 for failing to pay an out-of-state business registration fee. None of these concern the demolition work itself. What is known about the work is mostly scale. SMI bids public demolition projects in the millions — one bid tabulation lists it at $12.24 million alongside Manafort Brothers and Total Wrecking — and BBB files it under demolition contractors, giving an A+ grade while listing it as not BBB accredited, incorporated in August 2003, with Charles Smith Jr. as president and Darrell MacLean as vice president. The Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office certifies it as a Minority Business Enterprise, active through August 2028. Nothing in the public trail comes from customers — it is court filings, news coverage and directory pages. If you are weighing this company for demolition or site work, raise the 2025 settlement and the 2018 conviction directly, and ask for current insurance, bonding and references from jobs finished in the last year.
“SMI Demolition, Inc., a Norwood, Massachusetts demolition company, and its majority owner Charles Smith, Jr. agreed in August 2025 to pay $2.01 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that they fraudulently obtained pandemic relief loans by concealing Smith’s prior felony conviction for mail fraud. The settlement, announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, resolved a whistleblower lawsuit and stands as one of several DOJ enforcement actions targeting borrowers who lied on applications for Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds”
“On August 9, the government announced that Charles Smith, Jr. and SMI Demolition, Inc., of Massachusetts agreed to pay $2.01 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the company falsely certified its eligibility for two PPP loans and an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) during the pandemic.”
“Charles Smith, Jr. of Sharon, Mass. and SMI Demolition, Inc., of Norwood, Mass. submitted false loan applications to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), claiming that no owner had pleaded guilty to a felony involving fraud. However, Smith had pleaded guilty in federal court in Massachusetts to two counts of mail fraud in January 2018.”
“Smith, who pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud in 2018, was part owner of SMI Demolition when it applied for and received over $1.4 million in PPP loans and an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). His company falsely certified that no owner had pleaded guilty to a felony involving fraud”
“BOSTON – Charles Smith, Jr. of Sharon, Mass. and SMI Demolition, Inc., of Norwood, Mass. have agreed to pay $2.01 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that SMI Demolition falsely certified to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) its eligibility for two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL).”
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Established rating 1.5
Crumbling stairs, rusted railings, repointed brick foundations4.4
Hardscape construction4.3
Asbestos abatement4.2