Items Tagged with 'prison'

An update on a story initially reported last fall: the owner of a Florida roofing company and his office manager have been sentenced to prison for a $2.5 million tax fraud scheme that involved making off-the-books payments to employees to evade employment taxes.

A former roofing contractor will receive prison time after pleading guilty to two felony counts and one misdemeanor related to taking deposits from customers but not completing any roofing work.

Nastar Roofing owner William Skaggs and payroll administrator Billie Adkison admitted to a $2.5 million employment tax fraud scheme, paying employees in cash but failing to withhold taxes or report that income to the IRS. 

The former account manager of a Texas-based roofing contractor is heading to prison after the business found she was embezzling millions of dollars in a decade-long scheme.

A woman faces prison time after stealing more than $1 million from a New York-based roofing contractor.

Two Florida men pleaded guilty to tax evasion that resulted in a loss to the IRS of over $1.4 million.

The contractor collected a total of $21,472.23 in deposits from five customers to perform roof repairs but never completed the work.

The contractor participated in a scheme to use stolen or fraudulently created credit accounts to defraud Home Depot out of more than half a million dollars.

The contractor required payments in advance for materials but then failed to complete the work as promised.

A woman who used her position as bookkeeper for a roofing company has been sentenced to prison after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars.