Kevin Jones, a Manhattan man says he was offered a job by Halstead Management as a doorman, only to have the offer rescinded after a background check reported incorrectly that he had felony and misdemeanor convictions. Jones told Halstead there’d been a mistake, and Halstead referred him to Sterling, which stood by the report, the suit says.Jones has filed a lawsuit alleging that Sterling Infosystems, the background screening firm, reported the record of another Kevin Jones, whom had a different middle name, and belonged to a different race and did not verify the information with a court record check.
