PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - More legal trouble for a Rolla area contractor.

Following an On Your Side Investigation , the Missouri Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Gene Matlock with Matlock Construction.

Customers say they got shoddy work. Eventually, Matlock stopped showing up.

A few months ago, the Missouri Attorney General filed criminal charges .

Now, there’s also a civil case.

“We were losing hope,” said Joseph Walla. “It was getting difficult to see if there was light at the end of the tunnel.”

We first met him in the fall of 2022. He hired Gene Matlock with Matlock Construction to build his family a home and paid him $126,500.

In our first story, we showed you Walla got bank records (KY3 confirmed with another person) for the Matlock Construction business account.

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