Updates and new developments on the NH Alderman recently issued searched warrants for his pizza shops (pizzagate)

submitted ago by RonJahnn

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:

  1. 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?

  2. Katsiantonis doesn't own Zoey's, which was also searched last week. Why were they searched if this is a tax evasion investigation?

  3. 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?

  4. 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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FartOnYou ago

The pizza places are bars too. And its very possible for two pizza places (i think it was 3 though) to generate $1M. Especially if they sell booz too.

Im nearly 100% sure this is just a tax issue and nothing to do with pedos. Im from the area.

RonJahnn ago

I didn't consider that they were bars, but youre right that would certainly add to the total. I'm from the area as well and have been to all of these places for pizza, but never stuck around for drinks because they simply aren't that type of place(I guess Tommy Ks could be, but it is super dingy)

The reason I said 2 places is because he only owns 2 of the three pizza places which were searched. Zoey's is owned by someone else, but they are also included in the search warrants so something is going on there as well. He wouldn't owe any taxes for business done at Zoey's, so my estimate is for Tommy Ks and Grand Slam 2. That means those two places grossed $5 million($2.5 million/shop) in a year based on the articles stats. I still find that hard to believe, but more realistic with the bar portion in play.

LadyMinx ago

Can you go back and do a recon and get an idea of the interior square footage and compare that to a birds eye view of the building to see if there could be back rooms? Were there any funky photos/ wall art or logos that were suspect?

FartOnYou ago

Its just a seedy pizza place with $5 pitchers

LadyMinx ago

So is CPP and Besta Pizza!