A son of the late former Mafia underboss Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo is facing federal charges alleging he defrauded the government of more than $3.3 million in a payroll tax scheme at his Revere towing business, authorities said.

In a statement Thursday, US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling’s office said the defendant, Gennaro Jay Angiulo, 49, of Nahant and Saugus, was charged by a legal document called an information in federal court in Boston with one count of willful failure to collect and pay over taxes and one count of evading cash transaction reporting requirem

Between the tax years of 2014 through at least 2017, Lelling’s office said, Jay Angiulo allegedly paid a portion of the wages to employees of his company, GJ Towing, in cash under the table, prosecutors said.

“In doing so, Angiulo did not collect, account for or pay over to the IRS required withholding and FICA taxes,” the statement said. “The cash payments to employees were funded, at least in part, by cashing checks from clients of GJ Towing and other third parties in groups totaling not more than $10,000 in a single day.”