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"A Waukesha homeowner has lost part of retirement savings in a botched home improvement project.\n\nInvestigators are now concerned that there could be more victims.  \n\n\"Guess I should have caught on sooner,\" homeowner Richard Hunn said. \"It was one lie after another, one sob story after another.\"  \n\nHunn paid Thomas Krivitz $11,400 in cash to do improvements on his deck, gutters and soffits.  \n\n\"It\u2019s rotten in some spots from the gutters leaking over the years,\" Hunn said.  \n\nHunn signed a contract with Krivitz. The contractor bought a few materials with the money and did a few hours of work, but then he stopped showing up.  \n\nHunn finally called police.     \n\n\"What makes it criminal is what he did with the money. He didn\u2019t use it for materials for the job, and he went, and he spent it someplace else,\" Waukesha police Detective Tom Casey said.   \n\nPolice said Krivitz gambled it away. \n\nHe is charged with theft by contractor and faces six years in prison. \n\nPolice said there are likely more victims out there, and they want them to come forward.  \n\n\"We\u2019re looking to find those people to see if we can help them, to see if there\u2019s a criminal element to what happened, so we can get him prosecuted for what he did,\" Casey said.   \n\nPolice said homeowners should always check any contractor\u2019s record thoroughly before paying them money.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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