WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
Seattle - The owner of a restaurant in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for willfully failing to pay over more than $1.4 million in unemployment, Social Security, and Medicare taxes - some of which were withheld from employee paychecks, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
Ruadhri McCormick, 44, of Seattle, owns and operates Single Shot restaurant. Between 2014 and 2024 he employed as many as 87 people as servers, bartenders, and cooks. While McCormick withheld payro...