New Yorkers last week had the rare pleasure of seeing a restaurateur presented with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional $7,726,124 in taxes.
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