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How a Construction Payroll Scheme Drained $38 Million from the IRS
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Subscribe29 JUN 2026 / ACCOUNTING & TAXES
Mario Flores, a Honduran national, was sentenced to eight years in prison for orchestrating a sophisticated cash payroll operation that moved about $89 million in checks and caused over $38 million in tax losses to the U.S. Treasury between 2015 and 2022. The scheme also involved insurance fraud, shell companies, false tax documents, and illegal check cashing practices, and it allowed construction contractors to pay unauthorized workers without paying payroll taxes.
You know that moment when the grocery shelf price looks fine, but the final bill makes you do a double take? That is the feeling many American taxpayers get when they see how an off the books payroll scheme can quietly drain millions from the system. Mari...
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