Florida roofing business owner pleads guilty in employment tax conspiracy

A Florida man and woman have admitted to conspiring to defraud the United States by failing to pay employment taxes, according to a recent court hearing. William Skaggs Jr., who owned Nastar Roofing in Fort Myers, and Billie Adkison, the business’s primary office administrator responsible for payroll management, pleaded guilty to these charges. The allegations involve activities from 2013 to 2023 where employees of Nastar Roofing were paid over $21 million in cash without withholding necessary taxes like Social Security, Medicare, and federal income taxes.

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