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A Quincy man has been handed down an 18-month prison term for his role in a tax fraud operation and for falsifying statements related to a deadly workplace incident, officials said yesterday. Mauricio Baiense, 57, will serve a subsequent year under supervised release and is ordered to pay restitution amounting to exactly $2,824,577.45 to the United States. In a court session presided over by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young, the sentence was passed down, marking the closure of a case that has been under scrutiny since Baiense's indictment in August 2022 by a federal grand jury.

Through his Medford-based company, Contract Framing Builders, Inc. (CFB), Baiense orchestrated a scheme that ran from approximately 2013 through 2017. According to details from the U.S. Attorney's Office, about $11 million in checks meant for subcontractors were funneled instead to entities under Baiense's control. These funds were mainly cashed at a check cashing business and employed to maintain an unrecorded cash payroll system for CFB’s employees, which consequently evaded the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Baiense's deceptive financial practices extended to assisting in the preparation of a falsified employment tax return that understated the wages paid out to his employees. When interrogated under oath by an investigator from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about a fatality on the job site, Baiense compounded his legal troubles by...

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