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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting United States Attorney Troy Revetti announced yesterday that a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges
of willful failure to collect or pay over tax. Forty-nine-year-old Michael D. Funovitis pleaded guilty to this crime and will be sentenced on February 17th, 2026. Funovitis did not pay over to the payroll taxes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) he collected on behalf of his businesses, PennRo Associates LLC and Penn Exteriors LLC between 2016 and 2023. According to Revetti, Funovitis could face a maximum total sentence of up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both, provided by the law.