Pioneer Credit Recovery's spokesman Rick Castellano wrote us email clarifying the taxpayers' money it got.
It says "...Pioneer only received economic incentives for the commitments that we met in Batavia. No incentives were received for the project to construct a permanent site for the company’s work on the IRS Private Debt Collection Program.
"...The $350,000 loan Pioneer received was repaid. We did not receive any of the grant money for (a) new facility."
The repaid loan was used to upgrade Pioneer's Mill Street offices.
Furthermore, although Pioneer was awarded a great deal more money as part of its contract, the company never got it. That's because the plan to expand and build a new facility was not viable after the government cut the program in which private firms could collect some IRS debts.
It's just very sad news for
It's just very sad news for Batavia. Many more hard working folks heading for the unemployment line, or Social Services.