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Port Charlotte roofing firm owner pleads guilty to tax evasion

By Jim DeLa
| 1:00 p.m. April 8, 2024
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Manatee-Sarasota

A Sarasota woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to avoid paying federal income tax on more than $1 million in earnings from her Port Charlotte roofing business.

Olga Dedovets pleaded guilty April 5 to one count of making a false statement in a 2017 tax return, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Middle District of Florida in Tampa says in a news release.

Dedovets co-owned and helped to operate Suncastle Roofing in Charlotte County, court records show.

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Jim DeLa

Jim DeLa is the digital content producer for the Observer. He has served in a variety of roles over the past four decades, working in television, radio and newspapers in Florida, Colorado and Hawaii. He was most recently a reporter with the Community News Collaborative, producing journalism on a variety of topics in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties; and as a digital producer for ABC7 in Sarasota.