Yonkers Construction Company Owner Sentenced in $3.7 Mil. Tax Fraud Case

Patrick White, owner of Yonkers-based R&L Construction Inc., was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison on payroll tax fraud charges, United State Attorney Preet Bharara and IRS NY Special Agent-in-Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen announced.

White previously pleaded guilty to one count of failing to pay payroll taxes accumulated by his commercial construction business. According to Bharara, “from 2005 through 2011, R&L Construction operated a scheme whereby some employee’s wages were properly reported, while others’ were not. In so doing, [the company] accumulated approximately $3,758,000 in unpaid payroll tax liabilities.”

In addition to his prison term, White also was sentenced to one year of home confinement, and was ordered to liquidate certain real property to satisfy the $3,758,000 owed to the IRS.

Bharara praised the outstanding efforts of IRS-Criminal Investigation unit, and he also thanked U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division for its significant assistance in the investigation.

This case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. Collins, Jr., is in charge of the prosecution.