Seattle restaurant owner sentenced to prison for failing to pay employment taxes for dozens of employees over ten years

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Seattle – The owner of a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for 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 Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.