Bloomberg Law
December 7, 2018, 9:04 PM UTC

New York Diner Owner Latest to Get Jail Time in Wage Case

John Herzfeld
John Herzfeld
Staff Correspondent

A Long Island, N.Y., diner owner was sentenced to six months in jail on charges that he failed to pay $132,000 in wages due to 23 workers.

The Dec. 7 jail sentence was the fifth obtained by the New York attorney general’s office in wage cases over the past two years, as part of a more aggressive prosecutorial approach at the state level.

Richard Bivona, owner of the Princess Diner in the beach resort village of Southampton, N.Y., pleaded guilty in March to charges that he and the restaurant’s former manager underpaid the workers, illegally withheld credit card tips, and ...

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