Northern CT Contractor Gets Prison Time, Fine In Fed Tax Fraud Case

WOODSTOCK, CT — A northern Connecticut contractor has been sentenced to prison and fined in a federal tax evasion case.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Mariusz Kalinowski, 48, of Woodstock, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to seven months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for a tax fraud offense.

Judge Bryant also ordered Kalinowski to pay a $16,500 fine.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Kalinowski owns and operates Kalinowski General Construction, Inc., based in Webster, MA, a company that provides residential and commercial construction services in Connecticut and Massachusetts. For the 2010 through 2013 tax years, Kalinowski failed to report on his personal federal tax returns $927,828 in income from his business and, as a result, failed to pay approximately $174,746 in taxes on that income, case records show.

On Nov. 29 Kalinowski entered a guilty plea to one count of filing a false tax return.

Kalinowski has paid the IRS the $174,746 in taxes he owed. He has been free on bond and is required to report to prison on June 20, Avery said.