Posted on 09/02/2023 6:53:29 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Beverly pizza-shop owner who got $680,000 in federal Covid-19 relief funds based on applications with inflated employee counts, then used the money to jump from pizza making to alpaca farming, was sentenced to two years in federal prison this week for his wooly fabrications, the US Attorney's office announced.
Dana McIntyre, 59, who remained at the farm he bought in Grafton, VT even after his scheme was uncovered and the money he had not already spent on buying land, fences and alpacas seized, was also ordered to pay a total of $679,156 in restitution and forfeiture, the US Attorney's office reported.
McIntyre, the former owner of Rasta Pasta, had pleaded guilty in April to four counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering.
McIntyre was arrested in May, 2021, after federal agents began looking into his Payroll Protection Plan application, on which he stated he had 47 employees and a monthly payroll of $265,000 at Rasta Pizza, when, in fact, he had maybe three to six employees and a monthly payroll closer to $10,000.
With the money in hand, he spent $395,000 for a farm in Grafton, along with $10,00 on alpacas, $7,800 on fencing and $16,555 for storage sheds - as well as $14,000 for a 2007 GMC Sierra and $8,500 for a 1950 Hudson. He also used some of the money to buy time on a Vermont radio station to broadcast a show on cryptocurrency investing.
Prosecutors had sought 32 months in prison.
He should have laundered money for and in Ukraine.
Steal 50 million and they throw Beltway cocktail parties in your honor, and Ivy League colleges give you honorary degrees.
A few executions might send a message for the next time.
And he falsely put his kids' names in as part of the scheme--gee thanks dad!
He was doing “the Dana Crypto radio
show” on Beverly based [studio]
WBOQ; they immediately threw his
show off the air (brokered—paid them
to be on...the station is now a K-Love
Christian music station. Hey Dana,
thou shalt not steal!
File under Crypto-Nutsy
1. Why did the Beverly pizzeria owner try to become a Vermont alpaca farmer? Because he wanted to trade pizza slices for woolly alpacas!
2. Two years in prison for a pizza-to-alpaca career change? Talk about a cheesy crime!
3. When life gives you pepperoni, make alpacaroni! That’s what the pizzeria owner thought.
4. He thought alpacas would be a better slice of life, but the law didn’t agree!
5. When the judge said, “Order in the court,” the pizzeria owner asked for extra cheese.
6. Starting a new life as an alpaca farmer? That’s quite the dough-versification strategy!
7. Beverly pizzeria owner’s dreams of being an alpaca mogul crumbled faster than a thin-crust pizza!
8. What did the pizza say to the alpaca? “You’re stealing my dough!”
9. Two years in the slammer for trying to turn pepperoni into alpacaroni.
10. His alpaca dreams turned into a real-life “cheese caper.”
Well, the 1950 Hudson surely has some value.
Can’t pull the wool
over the FBI’s.
Meanwhile every politician and their bribers raked in millions and they’re untouchable...
[And this is one of the few who got caught.]
I imagine they’ll catch all of the big ones, at the very least. (not sure where the cut off might be but if somebody got several hundred thousand dollars....)
When does his rap album come out?
NO, he didn’t get two years for trying to start life over after COVID.
He got two years for fraud.
Yup a real character, thinking he
could get away with it. He used to
pop in to a local breakfast place,
high school classmate of the owner, etc
so I saw him there.
The Turtleboy/TB Daily News site told
of a customer who complained online
about skimpy portions on a lobster
pizza (!), expensive.
Instead of diplomatically replying
to this customer, he angrily responded
and doxxed her
>>Last June we blogged about Dana McIntyre, the owner of Rasta Pasta Pizzeria in Beverly, after he responded to a completely justified negative review of his s-—ty $30 lobster pizza by posting the addresses and phone numbers of dissatisfied customers in the replies.
..he then sold the pizzeria, and new
owners, maybe not aware of all this,
had kept the name. McIntyre’s reputation
may have kept customers away so it
didn’t last long. Yet another new owner
bought the site and has planned to
open under a different name but for
unknown reasons it’s been sitting there a long time with a Coming Soon sign, no sign of life yet
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