MIDLAND, Texas — A Midland business enterprise owner will have to have to pay more than $12 million in restitution and shell out 24 months in prison, according to a federal court.

Thomas Valdez Rodriguez, 45, was the proprietor of Tom-E-Lee Trucking and Tom-E-Lee Industries.

In accordance to courtroom documents, Rodriguez failed to fork out employment taxes withheld from staff at his trucking company starting up in 2012 and his marketplace corporation setting up in 2015.

He also reportedly failed to pay back own cash flow taxes commencing in 2011.

Failure to spend these taxes from the organization continued right until 2018.

In accordance to the federal courtroom, Rodriguez brought about a full hurt of $12,714,214.42 in unpaid taxes. He will be necessary to pay back this to the IRS.

Rodriguez reportedly applied some of the cash to obtain period tickets on the 50-garden line of Dallas Cowboys games and chartered jets to take him and his buddies to the games.

He also procured a new residence for more than $2 million.

Rodriguez pleaded guilty again in January to two counts of willful failure to account for and pay more than federal withholding taxes.

He had by now compensated for $1 million of these fees right ahead of he was sentenced on August 9.

“Rodriguez used the thousands and thousands in unpaid work taxes on himself, funding his lavish life style and burgeoning company. These actions not only harmed his employees’ long term Social Safety and Medicare positive aspects, he was also stealing from all trustworthy taxpayers and the United States Treasury,” stated IRS Legal Investigation Unique Agent in Cost Ramsey E. Covington of the Houston Discipline…