May 29, 2014 1 min read

A McMurray man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to filing false tax returns after earning substantial income from selling scrap metal taken from a South Strabane Township company in 2007 and 2008.

Daniel Levine, whose age was not released, pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to report the entirety of his income on his 2007 and 2008 tax returns.

Federal prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators said Levine and others made substantial profits in 2007 and 2008 from selling an unspecified amount of scrap metal taken from Greenetech Manufacturing Co. on Circle Road. Authorities said they sold the scrap for cash and did not report it on their personal income tax returns for those two years. Investigators did not say how much money the men made from the sales.

Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 8.

Levine was released on a recognizance bond.