Owner of closed Quincy temp agency sentenced for hiding $3.2M in payroll to avoid taxes

BOSTON − The former owner of a Quincy temp agency was given prison time and ordered to pay over $800,000 in restitution during her sentencing on tax and mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Boston on Wednesday.

Judge Richard G. Stearns sentenced Randolph resident Lilian Giang, 56, to 18 months in prison. Her prison term will be followed by two years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $845,382 in restitution for unpaid taxes on over $3.2 million in unreported payroll.

Giang was convicted this past April after a three-day jury trial of four counts of failing to collect and pay those taxes and one count of mail fraud. She was indicted in March 2023.

The case against Lilian Giang

Between 2015 and 2019, Giang owned and operated Able Temp Agency , which served client companies in Massachusetts. The clients paid Able Temp Agency for the temporary employees' work on an hourly basis.

Giang deposited those payments into bank accounts that she controlled in the name of Able Temp Agency and then paid the employees under the table through a combination of checks and cash, according to the U.S. attorney's office .

Prosecutors said Giang could have faced up to 20 years in prison on the mail fraud charge and five years for failure to pay taxes.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Owner of closed Quincy temp agency sentenced for hiding $3.2M in payroll to avoid taxes