New Paltz Business Owner Pays IRS Over $300k For False Tax Return

A New Paltz business owner is having to pay over $300,000 in restitution for filing false tax returns.

Business Owner Falsified Taxes From 2015 - 2019

Susan Salanitri, age 60, of New Paltz, New York, was sentenced Thursday, November 9th to 2 years of probation, and to pay $307,665 in restitution, for filing false tax returns.

Raised in New Paltz, Salanitri was the owner of Radiance Day Spa for 33 years before taking over Rocco's Pizzeria in 2014 without prior experience in the restaurant business. Rocco's Pizzeria later branched out into the realm of fine dining with Rocco's Fine Dining & Bar in 2018.

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United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Thomas Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), New York Field Division, made the announcement.

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Salanitri, the owner of two restaurants in New Paltz, previously pled guilty to five counts of filing false tax returns. She admitted that during each of the tax years 2015 through 2019, she deliberately under-reported her restaurants’ revenues on her individual tax return filed with the IRS, resulting in a total underpayment of taxes in the amount of $307,665.

IRS-CI investigated this case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett prosecuted this case.

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