United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy | U.S. Department of Justice
A Hopkinton man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Travelers Insurance Company. Dariusz Pietron, 51, received an 18-month prison sentence from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on January 10, 2025. His sentence includes three years of supervised release following his imprisonment. Pietron is also required to pay restitution amounting to $1,107,000 to the IRS and $244,000 to Travelers Insurance Company.
In May 2024, Pietron pleaded guilty to three counts of failure to collect and pay over employment taxes and one count of mail fraud related to underpaid workers’ compensation insurance premiums.
Between 2012 and October 2018, Pietron operated TJM Construction, Inc. (TJM) and Point Construction, Inc. (Point). During this period, he failed to report wages paid to employees or withhold necessary income taxes. He also neglected to pay required employment taxes. Additionally, Pietron did not disclose actual employee wages to Travelers Insurance Company, which led him to pay less in workers’ compensation insurance premiums than was owed.
As part of his scheme, Pietron recruited two employees who established three shell companies. These companies were intended to make it appear that TJM and Point’s employees were subcontractors without tax or workers' compensation obligations tied back to him. Through these actions, he avoided paying more than $1.1 million in employment taxes while defrauding Travelers out of approximately $244,000.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Tom Demeo, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the IRS Criminal Investigation's Boston Field Office; and Katherine Mulligan, Chief of Investigations for the Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Victor A. Wild from the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit.
