Bar manager ordered to pay $500 monthly
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Rick J. Napora, a Chaffee bar manager, was spared a jail term Monday but ordered to make monthly $500 payments for the next three years to the state Labor Department to make up for years of under-the-table payments to workers.
Erie County Judge Michael F. Pietruszka also ordered Napora, 51, of Liebler Road, Colden, to perform 50 hours of community service as he placed him on probation for the next three years for his Sept. 23, 2009, guilty plea.
Napora, manager of the Milestone Restaurant and Tap Room, didn’t comment.
Susan H. Sadinsky, a financial crimes prosecutor with the Erie County district attorney’s office, said Napora pleaded guilty to offering a false instrument for filing and a State Labor Law violation of “willful failure to pay contributions” to the state unemployment insurance fund.
The prosecutor said a state Labor Department “sweep” of Western New York restaurants and related businesses revealed Napora had been paying two workers off the books and not making payments to the state fund. The crimes occurred between 2005 and 2007, the prosecutor said.
Published: January 12, 2010, 12:30 am