Bay City News Service
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge sentenced a San Francisco restaurant owner on Wednesday in connection with a five-year scheme that involved as much as $7.5 million in sales and $2.9 million in wages, all of which went unreported to state authorities, prosecutors said.
Chaturonk Ngamary Jr. is the owner of several Thai Original BBQ restaurants, located in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Prosecutors allege Ngamary Jr., his father Chaturonk Ngamary Sr., and the owner of a separate Thai Original BBQ restaurant Sanjutha Hantanachaikul, all collectively schemed between 2011 to 2016 to evade paying sales tax to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. In addition, the trio evaded paying payroll tax and workers’ compensation insurance premiums the state’s Employment Development Department.
Back in Dec. 2019, prosecutors charged Chaturonk Ngamary Jr….
