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Nearly $1M paycheck tax scheme lands Fort Myers businessman in prison

The owner of a Fort Myers company that sold phone cards to prisoners is heading to prison himself for not paying IRS tax money collected from employee paychecks.

By Louis Llovio
| 6:30 p.m. March 18, 2024
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A Fort Myers man was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in federal prison for not paying taxes he withdrew from employees' paychecks.

U.S. District Court Judge Sheri Polster Chappell also ruled that Timothy Meade, whose age was not given, would have to pay back $971,130 in restitution in addition to the 30-month sentence.

Meade pleaded guilty in November to four of seven felony counts he was charged with for failing to pay taxes he had collected from employees.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.