The State Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a court motion to try to force non-profit CJF America to provide documents the agency has been seeking for months.
The documents pertain to allegations WRAL Investigates has reported on extensively, that CJF America did not pay employees working at summer camps around the state.
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The "Motion to Compel Compliance with Administrative Subpoena" explains that CJF executives have missed deadline after deadline to provide the DOL information since the summer. Failure to respond to the Dec. 10 motion by Dec. 15, it states, could result in civil contempt of court charges for CJF America President Kristen Picot.
WRAL Investigates has asked the DOL if that deadline was met, and has not yet heard back.
According to the Labor Department's motion, 31 people filed complaints with the state starting in late June. Starting that same month, the Labor Department says it sent several letters via mail and email to Picot, to produce pay records.
By October 2025, investigators say Picot finally made contact, and requested a letter from the Wage and Hour Bureau stating that CJF was cooperating. The document notes that the request came "despite CJF having provided no documentation or information ... As such, the Wage and Hour Bureau did not provide the requested letter."
WRAL Investigates has previously reported that CJF and its executives are facing multiple lawsuits from employees throughout North Carolina and even other states, alleging nonpayment. WRAL Investigates has spoken with dozens of people who, in total, say they are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars by the group.
The group's founder, Courtney Jordan, and its Chief Financial Officer, Nicholas Gallardo, were charged by the Durham Police Department in September with obtaining property by false pretenses and felony conspiracy. At last check with the Durham Police Department, those warrants remain unserved.
