Philadelphia man charged with underpaying $7M in employment taxes, DOJ says

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has returned a superseding indictment charging Jimmy Fabian of Philadelphia with engaging in a scheme to underpay more than $7 million in employment taxes owed by his staffing business and filing false tax returns for the company, the Justice Department announced. The superseding indictment replaces an earlier indictment filed in August 2025 that charged Fabian and two co-conspirators.

According to court documents, Fabian was the president, owner and operator of Celebes Staffing Services Inc., a Philadelphia-based labor-leasing company that supplied temporary workers to client businesses for a fee, including Companies A, B and C. From approximately September 2020 through at least June 2024, Fabian and two co-conspirators allegedly underreported the number of Celebes employees — many of whom were not authorized to work in the United States — and the wages and compensation paid to them as part of a scheme to fraudulently underpay employment taxes.

Fabian is also accused of causing the preparation and filing of false corporate income tax returns for Celebes that substantially underreported the company’s gross receipts. Court documents further allege that he disguised his full ownership of Celebes by listing a co-conspirator as a 50 percent owner.

Fabian faces one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, 13 counts of willfully failing to collect, account for and pay over employment taxes, and four counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false tax returns. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on the conspiracy charge and on each employment tax count, and three years in prison on each false-return count.

An indictment is merely an allegation. Fabian is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.