Seattle restaurant owner pleads guilty to failing to pay over employment taxes of more than $1.4 million

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Seattle – The owner of a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to pay over more than $1.4 million in unemployment, Social Security, and Medicare taxes – some of which were withheld from employee paychecks, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.