Connecticut pizza restaurant owner sentenced to prison for filing false tax returns
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 28, 2021, 6:25am EDT
The owner of both Connecticut and New York pizza restaurants was sentenced to prison for tax offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Steven Cioffi, 35, of Trumbull was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 30 days of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for a federal tax offense.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Cioffi owned 50% of Nepperhan Restaurants Group, Inc., doing business as ReNapoli Pizza, in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and Pinocchio Pizza in Pound Ridge, New York.