AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) – A Lake County man was sentenced to federal prison for not paying required employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Michael Roberts, 38, of Mentor, Ohio, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by the U.S. District Judge John R. Adams, after a federal jury convicted him in April of failure to account for and pay taxes.
According to a release by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Roberts was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $322,718.56 in restitution. Judge Adams imposed the sentence on Dec. 3…