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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a resident of Butler has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of $711,253.10 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on
his conviction of willful failure to collect or pay over tax. Fifty-one-year-old Michael D. Funovits was sentenced, and according to information presented to the court, between 2016 and 2023, he failed to pay over to the IRS payroll taxes he collected on behalf of his businesses, PennRo Associates LLC and Penn Exteriors LLC.