A federal judge has sentenced a partner in Key West staffing companies to more than 24 years in prison on tax, immigration, and money-laundering charges related to providing unauthorized workers to hotels, bars, and restaurants, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The sentencing Friday of Mykhaylo Chugay came after Volodymyr Ogorodnychuk, a manager of the businesses, was sentenced this month to four years in prison.
Chugay, an owner of firms including General Labor Solutions LLC, Liberty Specialty Service LLC, Paradise Choice LLC, Paradise Choice Cleaning LLC, Tropical City Services LLC, and Tropical City Group LLC, and co-conspirators were accused of defrauding the IRS out of more than $25 million in income taxes, Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes that should have been paid in the employment of the workers, according to a Justice Department news release.
“Chugay’s illegal staffing and money laundering operation lasted more than a decade and cost the government millions of dollars in unpaid payroll taxes,” Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg said in a prepared statement.
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