Mark Melchiori Tony Telles walked into Mark Melchiori’s office for a meeting and spotted a gun on the desk. Seeing the weapon “scared the crap out of him,” he told investigators. Melchiori, the former president of the now defunct Santa Barbara-based Melchiori Construction Co., demanded that he “inflate” an application for payment, according to a…
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