Feds want 2-year prison sentence for Bar One’s Peter Thomas in tax case

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Restauranteur and former reality TV star Peter Thomas should serve “at least” two years of prison time for his failure to pay millions in taxes withheld from his workers’ paychecks at his restaurants, according to a new sentencing memo from federal prosecutors.

“Thomas’s flagrant violation of his federal payroll tax obligations over many years that served to unjustly enrich his companies and himself by more than $2.5 million and deprive the federal government funds used to provide important retirement and disability benefits to employees” warrants the recommended sentencing, the memo states.

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