The head of a Tampa-area labor supplier has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to defrauding the IRS and workers’ compensation insurers out of millions of dollars.
A federal judge in Tampa last week ordered Gabriela Inamagua, director of Uno Construction and Perfect Builders Group, to time behind bars, along with restitution of more than $8.9 million, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Tuesday.
The sentencing came 18 months after another Polk County labor supplier, Guillermo Inamagua, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for managing shell companies that supplied labor to contractors in central Florida.
Prosecutors did not explain if the Inamaguas were related. Both acted in similar ways and provided insurance certificates to contractors, then underreported the number of workers to insurers, according to prosecutors and court documents.
“In reality, (Gabriela) Inamagua’s companies received and cashed more than $34 million in checks from various construction contractors for these purported ’employees,'” the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement.
Those payroll figures far exceeded the very limited payroll figures that Gabriela Inamagua had reported to her worker’s compensation insurance companies. “As a result, these employees—who were, in reality, the employees of other entities—performed work on jobsites without adequate insurance coverage.”
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