A New Hyde Park man who owned a former New York City restaurant was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to evading his federal taxes.
Adel Kellel, a 63-year-old New Hyde Park resident who owned Raffles Bistro was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting he avoided paying around $770,000 in taxes to the IRS and the state’s Department of Taxation and Finance on Monday, according to officials. Kelell admitted in January that he did not pay his taxes for a span of five years from 2011-2015, according to officials.
“Adel Kellel cooked his books to conceal income from the IRS and his own accountants,” Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York said. “He spent the ill-gotten gains on personal luxuries like a Mercedes, a Porsche, and a Maserati. Now he will spend two years in federal prison.”
In 2011, according to officials, Kellel was the president and 45-percent owner of K&H Restaurant Inc., which oversaw Raffles Bistro which was, at the time, located in a Manhatten hotel. Over the next four years until 2015, Kellel was a 100 percent owner of K&H.
Officials found that Kellel diverted more than 150 hotel checks totaling $2.1 million and hid the receipts from his accounts and the IRS by depositing the checks into more than a dozen of undisclosed bank accounts. To read more click here
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