The owner of a company that provided installation services on cellular phone towers has pleaded guilty to tax crimes.
Kenneth Marston, of Kingston, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty earlier this month to willful failure to collect, account for, and pay over any payroll taxes owed by businesses he owned and controlled.
Marston, who owned Bowmar Steel Industries Inc., a steel fabrication company, and Teleconstructors Inc., which provided installation services on cellular phone towers, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
In an announcement last week, the US Office of Public Affairs revealed that Marston was responsible for withholding social security, Medicare, and income taxes from his employees’ paychecks and paying those funds over to the IRS.
Between March 2015 and December 2018, Marston's companies failed to deduct these taxes, covering more than $3.8 million in wages.
Because of this, Marston caused a tax loss to the IRS of between $550,000 and $1.5 million, said the US Office of Public Affairs.
He is set to be sentenced on January 3, 2025, and also likely to face a period of supervised release, restitution, and monetary penalties.
"A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the US Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors," the US Office of Public Affairs added.
