Two of the three Swifty’s Restaurant & Pub locations seized Dec. 4 by the state for nonpayment of more than $2 million in taxes are due to reopen Sunday, according to owner Dave Swift, who said that he “messed up.”
In a statement texted to the Times Union on Saturday night, Swift said, “I wasn’t trying to get away with anything; things got away from me.”
He did not reply to a follow-up question about how the total owed in unpaid sales and withholding taxes grew over nine years to what the state Department of Taxation and Finance said after the seizure was $2.2 million. He also did not address questions about whether he agreed with the state’s figure, if he had made a payment to enable the release of the properties in Colonie, Delmar and Utica and whether he had come to repayment terms with the state…