The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Charles R. Ehrenberg, 34, owner of Ehrenberg Roofing and Construction Inc., located in Hazleton, pleaded guilty last week before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to failing to collect and pay over several years’ worth of required federal payroll taxes.

According to United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, the criminal information to which Ehrenberg pleaded guilty alleges that Ehrenberg, who was responsible, as owner of Ehrenberg Roofing and Construction Inc., for collecting and paying over to the Internal Revenue Service federal payroll taxes, including Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes, willfully failed to pay over to the IRS these required taxes for the period from 2017 through 2020, in the total amount of $185,681.90.

These charges stem from an investigation by IRS-Criminal Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffery St John is prosecuting the case.

The maximum penalty under federal law for this offense is five years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine.