Washington Co. men indicted for tax fraud
Two Washington County men are accused of filing false tax returns after earning “substantial income” from selling scrap metal to a South Strabane Township company in 2007 and 2008.
Federal prosecutors filed the felony charges against Angelo Comfort Jr. and Daniel Levine in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Tax Day, for allegedly falsifying their returns. Their ages and hometowns were not released by authorities in the federal indictment.
Federal prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators said Comfort and Levine made substantial profits in 2007 and 2008 from selling an unspecified amount of scrap metal to Greenetech Manufacturing Co. on Circle Road.
The two men sold the scrap in exchange for cash and did not report it on their personal income tax returns for those two years, court documents indicate. Investigators did not say how much money the men made from the sales.
Neither federal prosecutors nor officials with the IRS criminal investigation unit returned phone calls Wednesday afternoon seeking more information on the charges.