November 23, 2015 — The head of a major seafood processing company based in Gloucester was indicted Friday on charges he failed to pay taxes on more than $2 million in income he earned between 2006 and 2009, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.
Jack Ventola, 68, who lives in Ipswich and serves as president and part owner of National Fish & Seafood Inc., located at 11-15 Parker St. and 159 E. Main St., was indicted on three counts of filing false tax returns and one count of conspiracy to defraud the federal Internal Revenue Service.
The indictment alleges that Ventola’s company utilized the services of a temporary labor company called Continental Labor Team Inc., which Ventola and a co-conspirator — also an executive with National Fish & Seafood — controlled.
The Gloucester-based National Fish & Seafood is a division of Pacific Andes Group, a national seafood supplier to major retailers, distributors, institutional food service and restaurant chains across the United States.