BOSTON -- A Dracut woman involved in a tax-evasion scheme for a former Chelmsford paving company was sentenced Thursday to six months of home confinement and six months probation.
Judith Kelleher incorporated Mass. Paving in 1993 with William Belleville, a Groton resident. From then until 2006, the two withheld federal income taxes from their employees' weekly pay but failed to pay that money to the IRS, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Belleville was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison and ordered to repay $460,000, the amount of taxes he withheld. He will also have one year of supervised release after his jail sentence.
The restitution, or repayment, issue is still pending with Kelleher, according to the IRS Boston office.
Kelleher was 53 and Belleville was 58 at the time of their indictment in July 2011. Both were charged with conspiracy and willful failure to collect and pay payroll taxes, and Belleville was also charged with tax evasion.
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