More than a million dollars in unpaid taxes is the latest problem for an Erie businessman already indicted on federal charges that he fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief loans.
The IRS has filed a $1.7 million tax lien against a real estate company associated with the businessman, Aaron B. Collins, who was arraigned in the fraud case in February in U.S. District Court in Erie.
Collins, 50, is charged with bank fraud and money laundering related to a total of $633,718 that the real estate company and two other businesses received through the federal Paycheck Protection Program in 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic…