Pizza chef Bruno DiFabio gets prison time for tax evasion
May 6, 2021
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Bruno DiFabio displays a Margherita pizza at ReNapoli Pizzeria & Chicago Italian Beef in Old Greenwich, Conn. Celebrity pizza chef Bruno DiFabio has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for tax evasion. Known as “Lord of the Pies,” DiFabio was sentenced Thursday, May 6, 2021 in federal court in Bridgeport, Connecticut. (Bob Luckey/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, File)Bob Luckey/AP
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) Bruno DiFabio, a celebrity pizza chef who owns restaurants in Connecticut and New York, was sentenced to 30 days in prison Thursday for tax evasion.
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Bruno DiFabio of Ridgefield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to 30 days of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal tax offense.
According to court documents and statements made in court, DiFabio has had various ownership interests in several pizza restaurants in Connecticut and New York, including Pinocchio Pizza LLC, doing business as Pinocchio Pizza in New Canaan, Connecticut; Top Oven Restaurant Corp., doing business as Pinocchio Pizza in Wilton, Connecticut; DiFabio Brothers Pizza Corp., doing business as Amore Pizza in Scarsdale, New York; Odell Pizza, Inc., doing business as Amore Cucina and Bar in Stamford, Connecticut; Nepperhan Restaurants Group, Inc., doing business as ReNapoli Pizza, in Old Greenwich, Connecticut; and Homefield Restaurant Corp., doing business as Pinocchio Pizza in Pound Ridge, New York.
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A nationally known celebrity chef known as “Lord of the Pies” who owns restaurants in Westchester and Fairfield counties will spend time behind bars after admitting to not paying taxes.
Bruno DiFabio, age 51, of Ridgefield, was sentenced on Thursday, May 6 to 30 days in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to a federal tax offense in 2018.
Specifically, DiFabio pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false income tax returns and payroll tax returns.
Currently, DiFabio has ownership interests in several pizza restaurants in Connecticut and New York, including:
Pinocchio Pizza LLC, doing business as Pinocchio Pizza in New Canaan;
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A nationally known celebrity chef known as “Lord of the Pies” who owns restaurants in Westchester and Fairfield counties will spend time behind bars after admitting to not paying taxes.
Bruno DiFabio, age 51, of Ridgefield, was sentenced on Thursday, May 6 to 30 days in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to a federal tax offense in 2018.
Specifically, DiFabio pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false income tax returns and payroll tax returns.
Currently, DiFabio has ownership interests in several pizza restaurants in Connecticut and New York, including:
Pinocchio Pizza LLC, doing business as Pinocchio Pizza in New Canaan;