AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Maine’s attorney general says the owner of a popular oyster house in the state’s largest city has been sentenced for failing to pay personal and corporate income taxes.
Fifty-eight-year-old Cynthia Brown of Portland, owner of J’s Oyster, was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail. Attorney General Janet Mills says Brown collected sales tax from patrons while failing to turn over most of the sales tax from March 2008 to March 2015.
Mills says Brown underreported taxable sales and sales tax collected so she could steal more than $800,000 in sales tax.
Brown pleaded guilty in January 2017. Her full sentence was for four years in prison with all but four months suspended and three months of probation.