The CEO of a small Santa Clara manufacturing business was sentenced this week to one year and a day in prison for a decade-long scheme to avoid paying employment taxes.
John Comeau, of Santa Clara, was the CEO of Vivid Inc., a company that provided metal coating services to industrial customers in California and elsewhere, with as many as 40 employees, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Prosecutors said Comeau was responsible for withholding Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes from the wages of Vivid’s employees, but from early 2010 through 2019, failed to pass along these collections to the federal government…