A Hopkinton, Massachusetts man was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2025 in federal court in Boston for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Travelers Insurance Co. over wages he paid to employees of his two construction companies.
According to U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, Dariusz Pietron was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Pietron was also ordered to pay restitution of $1,107,000 to the IRS and $244,000 to the Travelers Insurance Co.
In May 2024, Pietron pleaded guilty to failure to pay employment taxes to the IRS and mail fraud relating to underpaid workers’ compensation insurance premiums.
Between 2012 and October 2018, Pietron owned and operated TJM Construction, Inc. (TJM) and Point Construction, Inc. Pietron failed to report to the IRS the wages he paid to employees, failed to withhold required income taxes and failed to pay required employment taxes. Pietron also failed to disclose to Travelers the actual wages he paid to employees, which resulted in him paying less in workers’ compensation insurance premiums than he owed, according to officials.
As part of the scheme, prosecutors said Pietron paid two employees to establish three shell companies – companies that would make it appear as if TJM and Point’s employees were subcontractors to whom Pietron had no tax or workers’ compensation obligations. Pietron thereby failed to pay more than $1.1 million in employment taxes and defrauded Travelers of approximately $244,000.
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