A New York City restaurant owner must pay more than $560,000 and serve 60 days in jail for underpaying employees, New York state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (D) announced (People v. Aronis, N.Y. Sup. Ct., 0753/2017, guilty plea 3/24/17).
Konstantinos Aronis and his company KMS Restaurant Corp. pleaded guilty March 24 to charges of offering a false instrument for filing and failure to pay wages. Over a four-year period, he failed to pay 34 workers minimum wage or overtime and falsified state reports to hide the underpayments and avoid paying unemployment insurance, according to the charges.
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