FRANKFORT, Ky. — The manager of a number of coal-related businesses, including a trucking firm that laid off all employees and shut its doors earlier this year, has admitted to keeping more than $22 million in taxes withheld from employee paychecks for himself.
John Thomas Quintrell, of Harlan, pleaded guilty to six counts of failure to collect or pay a tax in Frankfort federal court on Wednesday.
Quintrell was the manager and sole member of Civil LLC, which closed its operations in Pikeville, Jenkins and Harlan earlier in June, laying off 32 employees. He is also listed as the manager and sole member of Pocahontas Processing, Resilient Mining, Falcon LLC and Kratos LLC…