Roswell restaurant supervisor spends $300K at strip golf equipment, to jail

ATLANTA — The supervisor of a preferred Roswell restaurant has been sentenced to a number of years in jail after he embezzled greater than $300,000 by swiping his firm’s bank card at quite a few Atlanta strip golf equipment.

In accordance with the Northern District of Georgia’s U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace, he was employed by Houck’s Grille on Crabapple Street in Roswell in August of 2020. In October of that very same yr, on the top of the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to rack up fees at two separate strip golf equipment on his company-issued debit card.

Throughout an 11-month interval, the restaurant supervisor visited the strip golf equipment greater than 50 occasions. Throughout that span, he racked up over $300,000 on the cardboard, which subsequently crippled the restaurant considerably as a result of lack of cash.

“This grasping defendant abused his place to fund his personal way of life. Due to his actions, the restaurant, and other people he was chosen to guide suffered the impacts,” mentioned Keri Farley, particular agent in command of FBI Atlanta. “Individuals who openly steal from their employers ought to count on to be held accountable.”

It threatened the roles of all 40 staff on the time and finally pressured them to borrow COVID aid funds in an effort to simply keep in enterprise, the U.S. DA’s Workplace mentioned.

The person, initially from Canton, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in jail adopted by three years of supervised launch. He’s additionally being pressured to pay a restitution price $300,533.78. He pleaded responsible to wire fraud fees and was convicted in September.