Posted on 11/05/2021 10:08:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA (AP) — The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mother’s name, federal prosecutors in Atlanta said.
Shanga Hankerson opened his first restaurant, Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, in Atlanta in 1997. Over the next several years, he opened at least three more locations in Georgia and Washington, D.C.
Hankerson, 45, “willfully disregarded his tax obligations for many years,” Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine said in a news release. During his sentencing Wednesday, Hankerson, who pleaded guilty in July, was also ordered to serve a year of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay more than $1 million in restitution.
He was the sole owner of the business and was required to withhold payroll taxes from his employees’ gross pay. From at least 2012 to 2016, Hankerson failed to remit more than $1 million in payroll taxes, prosecutors said.
Knight won a legal battle to sever ties to the business in 2017, and her son was ordered to stop using her name, likeness and memorabilia, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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...has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mother’s name... “willfully disregarded his tax obligations for many years,” Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine said in a news release. During his sentencing Wednesday, Hankerson, who pleaded guilty in July, was also ordered to serve a year of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay more than $1 million in restitution.
Shanga Hankerson.
The IRS does.
If you make the rules complicated and difficult to follow and enforce, that is your fault.
Correct. But it is the taxpayer that pays the price, not the IRS.
I’m sure Gladys had her reasons for naming her son ‘Shanga’.
Maybe it’s a take from Shing-a-Ling, a popular dance early in her career.
“This and female employee embezzelers which is also very common.”
This and the use of corporate credit or debit (”purchasing or p-) cards for personal expenditures. The local university finally cancelled all of the existing p-cards because of rampant fraud. Even one of the (female) vice-presidents was fired and prosecuted for this.
So you restate my point as though it contradicts my point.
You must be an R-word.
You are right . . . and 96% of the time (give or take), the embezzlers ARE women. Men can be conned so easily by feminine sweetness, it is uncanny.
The embezzlers may go for years (and, occassionally, even a lifetime) without getting caught if they don't get too greedy.
From my years of experience, it is random events such as the one you mentioned that flags the most careful ones. More often, it is just that they keep getting bolder and more greedy.
Not so different that the election stealing liberals. Just look at how they dominate the positions of bureaucracy, academia, media and law where you don't actually have to do anything or produce results. Then they eventually get bold and greedy and want everything. Just skimming a little here and there will no longer do.
I was dumbfounded that our county just elected a Republican Coroner on Tuesday with zero medical training. I actually voted for the Democrat because he was a decent guy.
But that's what happens when you have a D after your name in most of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania-- a blue collar county which was once so Democrat that Mondale actually carried it in Reagan's 49 state re-election landslide in 1984.
Some reason she didn’t put Sonny on a Midnight Train to Georgia to keep him one step ahead of The Law? ;)
And yet, the likes of Al Sharpton and the Clintons still roam free...
She was always the most pleasant lady when coming to prison on visitation days.
James Brown spent some time in prison. Made him the leader of the prison glee club. Reports were that it was ‘much improved’.
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