The United States Attorney’s Office claims that a father and son who own construction subcontracting companies in Jacksonville each face the possibility of a maximum sentence of five years in prison if they are proven guilty of the federal accusations that have been brought against them.
Raul Solis, age 52, and Raul Solis-Martinez, age 32, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to unlawfully employ workers who were neither lawfully admitted to the United States nor authorised to be employed there, according to a press release that was issued on Friday.
The father and son are said to have owned and operated the Jacksonville construction subcontracting companies Solis Brothers Company, LLC and Duval Framing, LLC, according to the plea pleas. Jacksonville is home to both of these companies and their headquarters.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, the defendants took part in a conspiracy with one another and the owner of another contractor to illegally cut the cost of labour by paying their employees in part “off the books.”
The conspiracy was intended to reduce the cost of labour by a total of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
According to the plea deals, they did not deduct the total amount of payroll taxes that they owed to the IRS from their employees’ paychecks.
Investigators arrived at the conclusion that the company’s employees had earned wages totalling more than $22 million between the years 2014 and 2019, but those wages had not been disclosed to the IRS.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, the father and son committed fraud against the company that was responsible for their workers’ compensation insurance and their payroll functions.
According to the press release, Solis and Solis-Martinez were aware of the fact that a significant percentage of their employees were either undocumented immigrants who had entered the country illegally or people who lacked the authorisation to be employed in the United States of America.
According to the guilty pleas, the father and son are believed to have owned and operated the Jacksonville construction subcontracting companies Solis Brothers Company, LLC and Duval Framing, LLC. Both companies provide services in the construction industry.
The headquarters of each of these companies are located in Jacksonville, which is also the city where they were founded.
The office of the Attorney General claims that the defendants participated in a conspiracy with one another and the owner of another contractor to illegally decrease the cost of labour by paying their employees in part “off the books.”
This was done to save money on labour costs. A total savings of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was the target of the plot, which was meant to lower the cost of labour.
According to the terms of the plea pleas, they did not withhold from their employee’s paychecks the complete amount of payroll taxes that they were required to pay to the IRS.
Investigators came to the conclusion that employees of the company had earned wages totalling more than $22 million between the years 2014 and 2019, but that information regarding those wages had not been reported to the IRS.
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The Internal Revenue Service will receive compensation for $5.6 million as a result of an agreement struck between both parties.
