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Owner of Iceoplex faces new payroll tax charges

The owner of the ice rink where the Pittsburgh Penguins used to practice has been charged with 18 new counts of willfully failing to pay payroll taxes for employees.

Steven Lynch, 60, a lawyer who owns the IceoPlex in Southpointe, was already under indictment since last year on charges of failing to pay more than $1 million in payroll taxes for workers at his various businesses at the complex. According to the charges, Mr. Lynch ordered his staff not to pay wage taxes, Social Security and Medicare contributions withheld from employee paychecks from 2008 to 2011. According to the indictment, Mr.