After a five-day jury trial in U.S. District Court, Jason Pecoy, 44, of Wilbraham, was convicted of two counts of conspiring to defraud the federal government.
Pecoy had been indicted along with his father, Kent Pecoy, and their business associate Kevin Kenney.
According to a press release from the U.S. District Attorney’s Office,
From 2009 through 2016, Kennedy conspired with Kent Pecoy, the owner of Kent Pecoy and Sons Construction Inc. (KPSC), and his son, Jason Pecoy, a KPSC project manager, to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service and the collection of taxes by concealing Kennedy’s cash payments for construction of the East Longmeadow and West Dennis homes. Kennedy paid the Pecoys in cash, all of which the Pecoys failed to deposit into business bank accounts, but rather distributed the cash directly to vendors and subcontractors. When they did deposit the cash, the Pecoys deposited funds in amounts less than $10,000 to avoid the filing of currency transaction reports. The evidence proved that the Pecoys created and maintained separate ledgers documenting Kennedy’s cash payments, created and maintained false contracts and cover sheets, and created false entries in KPSC’s accounting system to conceal the cash payments.
Jason could be sentenced up to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Additionally, he could be fined up to $250,000.