Bartley's restaurant owner gets jail time
The owner of Kennebunkport restaurant Bartley's Dockside has been convicted of nearly two dozen criminal counts, including sales tax theft, tax evasion and unemployment fraud.
Brian Bartley, part owner and general manager of the restaurant, was sentenced to three years in jail with all but nine months suspended and three years of probation, and ordered to pay $87,365 in restitution, according to a press release from Maine Office of the Attorney General. Bartley pleaded guilty in March of stealing some of the sales tax money customers paid for personal use; using the restaurant to evade paying income taxes by using it to pay tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, including mortgage and utility bills; and fraudulently receiving thousands in unemployment compensation, despite the restaurant's year-round operation. Bartley committed those offenses between 2003 and 2007.
Bartley, along with his father, James Bartley, was previously convicted of similar restaurant-related tax offenses in 1991, and both served three months in jail. He and his father also paid the state $200,000 in restitution for those offenses.
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