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DON'T MESS WITH THE PIZZA DELIVERY GUY
April 02, 2008
A Detroit Pizza Hut and Burger King Franchisee serving time for a political corruption conviction now is charged with stealing payroll taxes withheld from employees:
DETROIT -- La-Van Hawkins, the Detroit Burger King and Pizza Hut mogul who was sent to federal prison in connection with a city corruption case in Philadelphia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Detroit, accused of keeping $5.3 million in employee payroll taxes he was supposed to turn over to the government.Hawkins, 49, who was sentenced to 33 months in prison by a federal judge in Pennsylvania in 2005, is currently serving time at a federal prison in South Dakota and is scheduled to be released next year.
Here in Des Moines the Pizza Hut employees know how to handle these situations.
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