Contractor Charged and Agrees to Plead Guilty to Multi-Year Half-Million-Dollar Tax Fraud

BOSTON - The owner of a construction company doing business in Berkshire County was charged today with a multi-year income tax fraud scheme.

Dennis Condron, 75, of Cheshire, has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of tax fraud. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled by the Court.

According to the charging document, over a three-year period, in addition to depositing customer payments to his company, D Condron Construction, Condron hid over half a million dollars in customer checks by cashing them and diverting them to his personal accounts. It is alleged that, when Condron had his taxes prepared, he did not tell his preparer about the checks he was cashing and diverting customer checks - resulting in his tax returns underreporting the gross receipts of the business by hundreds of thousands of dollars. As a result, Condron allegedly kept hundreds of thousands of dollars that he should have paid in federal and state income taxes.

Acting United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Thomas Demeo, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Boston Field Office made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Merck of the Springfield Office is prosecuting the case.

The details contained in the charging document are allegations. The defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in the court of law.