The NH Union Leader, our largest local newspaper here in New Hampshire, reported today that on Jan 30th, 2 weeks before the search warrants, a tax lien was placed on Alderman Thomas Katsiantonis, who last week had his home, two pizza shops, and a third nearby unowned pizza shop searched by federal investigators.
It is reported that he owes nearly 500k in back taxes. While this revelation seems to say this search was unrelated to Pizzagate, it makes me wonder about a few things:
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The Attorney General in NH is still using the same boiler plate response to the investigation and won't explain any further. If the nature of the investigation has been revealed, wouldn't it make sense for her to comment on it?
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Katsiantonis doesn't own Zoey's, which was also searched last week. Why were they searched if this is a tax evasion investigation?
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Is it even realistic for 2 pizza shops to generate a gross $5 million in a period of 1 year? I know first hand visiting all of the places searched that they aren't thriving businesses and tbh are all quite run down. The Union Leader article states he owes the money for the period between Jan 2013 - Jan 2014; with NHs 9% meals tax, that's an estimated $5million in gross revenue. Two mom and pop shops in NH grossing $5 mil seems a bit unrealistic, but I could be wrong. Thoughts?
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Why are the Feds involved in a state tax issue?
What are people's thoughts on the new revelations? Here's a link to the Union Leader article, it could be useful to sleuths because it lists the names of the shell companies he uses for ownership of his pizza shops:
http://www.unionleader.com/local-government/Manchester-alderman-billed-for-427000-plus-in-taxes-02212017
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sponiatowski ago
I wish I understood more about the business tax laws but it seems highly unlikely that any restaurant outside a national chain could generate that much money. Very suspicious and you raise good points. I disbelieve this article. It's "fake news".