Thursday, June 24, 2010

West Palm Beach Contractors Plead Guilty to Hiring Illegal Workers, Tax Fraud

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida issued the following news release:
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced today that John M. David and Juan A. Gonzalez have pled guilty to conspiracy charges related to their participation in a scheme to employ illegal aliens and thereby avoid the payment of employment taxes and workers' compensation premiums for these workers.
The charges involve Sun Deck Concrete, Inc. ("Sun Deck"), a Florida corporation located in Palm Beach County, which provides concrete services to residential and commercial contractors. John M. David is the President of Sun Deck and Juan A. Gonzalez was a supervisor at the business.
According to court documents, in the early 2000s, Sun Deck's business began to grow and the company needed to hire additional laborers. To meet this need and to remain profitable, Sun Deck turned to undocumented workers, many of whom were Honduran and Mexican nationals who were living in the United States illegally. In order to conceal the fact that Sun Deck was hiring and paying illegal aliens, John David and Juan A. Gonzalez devised a scheme to pay these workers through a series of shell companies.

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