Thursday, August 19, 2010

Couzins Catfish couple sentenced for telling IRS a big fish story

Posted by Charles Ferruzza on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM

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It may be pushing it to call the three fried-fish restaurants owned by local restaurateurs Dewayne and Lisa Acklin castles. After all, the Raytown location was formerly a fast-food burger joint. But the three humble-looking Couzins Catfish Castle venues have been raking in pretty impressive loot.

The problem for the Acklins is that they attempted to hide some of those earnings from the Internal Revenue Service. It turns out that wasn't such a good idea.

This week the office of the United State Attorney, District of Kansas announced that the Acklins -- who had pleaded guilty to charges of filing false federal tax returns last March -- were sentenced to five years' probation and 500 hours of community service. The couple was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $106,953.

The charges stem from tax returns filed in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The indictment stated that in 2006, for example, the Acklins reported gross business receipts of $193,785 when the actual gross receipts were $1.1 million.

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come on fatruzza...if we called you twiggy in high school it wasn't because you were skinny!!!
you know what I'm saying girlfriend!!

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Posted by Steven Segal1 on 08/24/2010 at 8:33 AM

Segal@
You're trying too hard, doll. And I would have probably been thrilled in high school if someone had called me "FAT" since I was so ridiculously skinny. "TWIGGY" was more like it.

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Posted by Charles on 08/23/2010 at 7:27 AM

Joe Bone.

"FAT"ruzza has been his nickname for a while now...he never minded in high school when we called him that or "Sloppy Joe"...Joe?

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Posted by Steven Segal on 08/23/2010 at 6:33 AM

@Segal:

We leave these comment threads open so people can discuss and debate the content, not lob childish, incoherent and wholly unoriginal attacks at their fellow human. I believe this is "Fatruzza" comment number three or four; let's say we make it the last, huh?

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Posted by Joe Tone/Pitch on 08/20/2010 at 8:34 AM

One Million in Catfish Sales????
I bet you had a lot to do with that..isn't that right "Fat"ruzza?

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Posted by Steven Segal on 08/20/2010 at 6:52 AM

I stumbled on this article on Google though I was trying to find something similar, but I just wanted to say very good stuff and I utterly agree. Is there any method to subscribe to fresh content?

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Posted by Mammie Kolo on 08/19/2010 at 12:42 PM

Holy Christ! $1 Million in fried catfish sales? Seriously? I never woulda guessed it was so successful. Damn...

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Posted by Faith on 08/19/2010 at 11:41 AM
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