Ruadhri McCormick, the owner of the Single Shot restaurant on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, was sentenced Monday, Oct. 26, to 13 months in prison for keeping payroll taxes that were taken out of his employees’ paychecks. He owes $1,446,341 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Several of the as many as 87 people who worked for him now have Social Security records with gaps.
U.S. District Judge Kimberly K. Evanson also ordered three years of supervised release. Prosecutors had asked for 15 months. McCormick, 44, had pleaded guilty in July to willfully failing to pay over the taxes, and he admitted in his plea agreement that he did not file his own income tax returns for any year from 2015 through 2024…