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The owner of a Brick asphalt and concrete maintenance company was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for failing to turn over payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
Donato DiPasquale, 57, of Brick pleaded guilty in 2019 to one count of failing to collect, account for and pay payroll taxes.
According to the IRS, DiPasquale, owner of Stars-N-Stripes Asphalt Maintenance, failed to pay $435,270 in those taxes for his employees from 2010 to 2015.
He pleaded guilty to neglecting to pay $26,633 on $112,446 in wages he paid to his employees in the third quarter of 2015.
On Thursday, U. S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan, sitting in Trenton, also ordered DiPasquale to serve three years of supervised release and pay full restitution. He has already paid $307,404.79, the IRS said.
Court news: Rural Frazee man sentenced after his shots punctuate feud over neighbor s target practice
According to court records, on Nov. 28, 2019, the man fired several shots that alarmed a neighbor across Highway 87, saying he fired three shots into the air “to let (the neighbors) know he could shoot, too.”
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James Patrick Tuma, 71, of rural Frazee, has been sentenced in Becker County District Court on a misdemeanor charge of reckless discharge of a firearm.
A felony charge of endangering safety by discharging a firearm was dropped in a plea agreement.
According to court records, on Nov. 28, 2019, he fired several shots that alarmed a neighbor across Highway 87. Tuma said he fired three shots into the air “to let (the neighbors) know he could shoot, too.”