Owners of three Bay Area restaurants charged with tax evasion, labor law violations
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three people have been arraigned in connection to tax evasion and labor law violations at Japanese restaurants in San Jose, Concord and Daly City that they owned and operated.
David Tai Leung, Sunny Siukeung Chan and Wendy Lai Ip are charged with stealing more than $893,000 in wages from their employees and evading $287,697 in sales taxes and $171,820 in employment taxes.
They were arraigned last week in Sacramento Superior Court, according to a statement from California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
The three defendants were the owners, operators, and the certified public accountant of Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet in Daly City, Tomi Japanese Seafood and Grill in San Jose, and Tomi Japanese Seafood Buffet in Concord.
Bay Area Japanese buffet owners stole nearly $900,000 in worker wages, Calif. AG says
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The sign outside Kome in Daly City.Ivory B./Yelp
The California Attorney General’s Office has charged the owners of three Japanese buffets throughout the Bay Area with 65 counts of tax fraud and wage theft at least half of which are charges made under the state s aggravated white collar crime enhancement.
David Tai Leung, 60, Sunny Siukeung Chan, 60, and Wendy Lai Ip, 55, were arraigned in Sacramento County Superior Court on Wednesday. They face charges of false tax returns, failure to pay unemployment and disability insurance, failure to pay income taxes and grand theft of labor, per a release from the California Attorney General s Office.