Press Release
Restaurant Owner Sentenced for Failing to File a Tax Return
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts
BOSTON – A Connecticut restaurant owner was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in federal court in Springfield for failing to file tax returns.
Giuseppe Scuderi, 62, of West Suffield, Conn., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to six months in prison and ordered to pay $170,769 in restitution. In June 2019, Scuderi pleaded guilty to one count of failing to file a tax return for the year 2015, and his company, Scuderi’s Inc., pleaded guilty to five counts of filing false tax returns for the years 2010 through 2014. Scuderi and Scuderi’s Inc. were charged on May 3, 2019.
According to court documents, Scuderi was the owner of a Southwick restaurant that generated a substantial amount of cash sales. From 2010 to 2014, Scuderi took cash from the business, did not declare it as income, and kept two sets of books, which depicted both the actual sales of the business and the sales disclosed on his tax returns. As a result of his scheme, Scuderi failed to pay $170,769 in taxes to the government.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant of Lelling’s Springfield Branch Office prosecuted the case.
Updated September 30, 2019
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Tax
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