Bar Owner Gets Jail For No Tax On Bootlegged Booze
Posted on Friday, 30 of October , 2009 at 5:42 pm
BINGHAMTON—A Binghamton area bar owner has been sentenced to one year in jail for tax evasion.
Todd Finch, 43, owner of the former Conklin Inn, located at State Route 7 in Conklin, was sentenced Oct. 26 before Conklin Town Judge J. Marshall Ayres for evading the alcoholic beverage tax on purchases of over seven hundred liters of “bootlegged” liquor.
Finch, of 1108 Conklin Road, Conklin, pled guilty on May 29 to one count of willfully attempting to evade alcoholic beverage tax, a Class A misdemeanor.
The charge arose from an undercover investigation by the Department of Taxation and Finance in which investigators posed as bootleggers selling untaxed liquor allegedly purchased from New Hampshire.
During the undercover operation, Finch purchased liquor on 19 separate occasions between Oct. 6, 2005 and February 28, 2007. Finch admitted to investigators that he had lowered his reported sales so he could remit less in state sales tax and bragged that his behavior “screws the government” and “keep[s] stuff off the books.”
Previously, Finch had been given one year of pre-sentence supervision and ordered to begin making restitution of $84,293. Finch made one payment with a check that bounced. 10-30-09
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