Bismarck  (CSi)  The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office has issued a cease and desist order banning Chris Gustafson of Becker, Minnesota, doing business as Nature’s Way Tree and Landscape, from engaging in contracting in North Dakota.

The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division initiated an investigation in August  2017, after receiving a complaint from a North Dakota homeower, who complained that in May 2017, he had paid Gustafson $7,000 to remove trees and perform related cleanup work, but Gustafson did not do all of the work and also damaged the home.

Investigators determined that Gustafson was not a licensed contractor in North Dakota. It also appeared to investigators that Gustafson was engaged in false advertising,  distributing flyers representing that he is licensed and insured, when he is not. Gustafson responded to the initial communications from the investigators but ignored all subsequent efforts to contact him.