LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two business owners, one from Lackawanna County, have pleaded guilty after investigators say failed to pay employment taxes.
34-year-old Vincent Guntur, of Dunmore, and 65-year-old Angelica Jones, of Hauppauge, New York, owned and operated four companies, Mega & G Inc., Yoagen LLC, Phoenix 89 LLC, and Starlight & Sun Inc. from 2018 through the third quarter of 2024.
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According to the Department of Justice, Guntur and Jones willingly failed to collect over $1.3 million in employment taxes during that timeframe.
Guntur and Jones pled guilty to one count of failure to remit employment taxes. Both agreed to make a full restitution of the money due as part of their sentence.
“Business owners have a responsibility to withhold income taxes for their employees andthen remit those taxes to the Internal Revenue Service,” stated Yury Kruty, Special Agent inCharge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, Philadelphia Field Office.
They face a maximum penalty of five years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine.
