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A Supreme Court judge in Buffalo has ordered a restaurateur convicted of sales tax evasion to serve pizza to the city's poor instead of serving time in prison.
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Joseph Jacobbi, owner of Casa-Di-Pizza, a popular pizza restaurant in Buffalo, had pleaded guilty to third degree grand larceny in April and risked facing a prison term of up to seven years for evading sales tax. But instead of sentencing Jacobbi to prison, the State Supreme Court Justice Russell Buscaglia ordered Jacobbi to provide 12 sheets of pizzas every Tuesday to the Buffalo City Mission for 52 weeks.
"I will leave the choice of toppings up to you," Buscaglia told Jacobbi, Tuesday, according to The Buffalo (N.Y.) News.
Jacobbi, who has repaid about half of the $104,295.31 he was found guilty of withholding from the state between March 2004 and the end of May 2008, has also been ordered to make monthly restitution payments of $4,400 each to the state to help cover his tax bill.
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Buffalo City Mission Public Relations Director Aubrey Calhoun said the judge's order was a "treat" as "not everybody gets pizza." Though the Mission serves over than 19,000 people every month and the pizza sheets would feed only 192 people once a week, Calhoun expressed gratitude, saying every little bit helps.
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