reBar owner pleads guilty to grand larceny, tax fraud
Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson, together with New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance Thomas H. Mattox, announced on Thursday that the owner of reBar, a now-shuttered restaurant located in DUMBO, has pleaded guilty to grand larceny and criminal tax fraud in connection with stealing approximately $200,000 in sales tax that he collected but failed to pass on to the state between 2009 and 2012.
He also admitted failing to collect approximately $1.2 million in sales tax during the same period.
Jason Stevens, 41, of 68 Jay Street, in Brooklyn and his corporation, Fulton Ferry Market, Inc., pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of second-degree grand larceny and four counts of criminal tax fraud before Acting Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew A. Sciarrino, Jr., who is expected to sentence the defendant to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison on July 21, 2014.
With reBar’s sudden closure, many couples lost tens of thousands of dollars in wedding deposits and had their wedding plans ruined by Stevens’ crimes.