San Jose Restaurant Owner Charged With Misusing $3.5 Million in COVID Funds
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- A San Jose restaurant owner is in hot water, accused of taking millions in COVID-19 relief funds and using it for personal gain. Marianne Favro reports.
Stay connected:
Follow us on Twitter: / nbcbayarea
Like us on Facebook: / nbcbayarea
Follow us on Instagram: / nbcbayarea
Follow us on TikTok: / nbcbayarea
Catch up on all the day's news:
www.nbcbayarea.com
Download our mobile app:
On iOS: nbcbay.com/R1BhqYM
On Android: nbcbay.com/rUcA97h
Watch us on OTT:
Add our channel on Roku: bit.ly/3ySK60j
Download our app on Amazon Fire TV: amzn.to/3FmmiEA
“Because it’s fishy “
I chuckled
I think it was pun intended, or maybe not but it was perfect. 😂
I definitely let out a snort
He knew what he was doing. Lol
@@LoneWolf10-12 probably meant Covid is fishy so calling a cheat of a cheat fishy is funny but ofcourse that’s another subject
@@DxModel219 r/whoooosh
That's a shame, it can drag the entire business down and his partner and of course employees will suffer for that. Sadly he's not the only one and I'm glad that these cheats are getting caught.
It was his first time so he’ll be ok lol the lawyers will get his back many people got away with it as it was first time covid happened lol
Maybe it was a trap to catch such thieves.
@@unvcht5046 alot of people didn’t get away with it.. the government just didnt go after anybody because they were too busy and short staffed with the pandemic. Now 80,000 IRS agents have been hired this... they are going after so many people now. It will take time but smaller business owners will get hit now
@@CriscianaLovely - I keep wondering what they are really for because it's under The Treasury Dept, now. It'll be interesting.
Get back the money plus interest and jail time.
I've eaten at this restaurant several times and it's very popular, always busy, but I'll never eat there again. All that money meant for the business relief and he used it for gambling and personal use, ugh, criminal!!!!
To be honest most of the money went to peoples pockets
Hella dumb to not eat there again cause they were smart and just kept saying yes to government handouts
@@mssha1980 3.5 out of 5 mil pocketed instead of going towards the business and employees. Unless you just mean he spent the money period, but I’m gonna assume you’re not saying that rich assholes paying their gambling debts helps bolster the economy.
@@Croatoan879 people like you are the reason Americans get looked down upon.
FYI, this restaurant owner is a repeat offender. Just last year, he was arraigned for tax fraud and wage theft by the state attorney general.
Hes probably not an American just another pos soaking off the government scamming anyone along the way extremely sickening throw his ass in prison
Yep that guy is a massive pos.. I know of plenty of people that didn't get the RRF and couple that did get it and all of them are on the verge of going under or already sold. Then you have this pos that got 5mill...
It was his first time so he’ll be ok lol the lawyers will get his back many people got away with it as it was first time covid happened lol
BOYCOTT this criminal!!!
BOYCOTT this criminal!!!
Feel bad for all the restaurants that didn't get the assistance and having to shutdown
Probably won't do time, but ,he has his greasy palms doing other thing with his people, he will get away with it!
It was his first time so he’ll be ok lol the lawyers will get his back many people got away with it as it was first time covid happened lol
There’s was no point and unconstitutional to shut everything down
I agree and why did this guy get 5 million? WOW! Hope he has to pay it back plus fines!
I feel bad for my family and my husband. He had to work his butt off while everyone was at home and received big money for free.
More than likely there’s thousands of similar cases across the United States the biggest crime is the government giving out $5 million to one restaurant
Maybe the IRS was fishing
Exactly! How the hell do you hand out 5 million dollars to a single restaurant?
.there's no oversight for these people.
DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS THE ONLY ONE ????? I hope they can check all the business who received the money 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@Trinh Con agreed
What I found funny is when the guy said “Cause it’s fishy” and it so happens to be a sushi place.
Lol i died when he said that.
@@AllThisThingsIHateU yeah me too 😄
I think that pun was deliberate by him lol
Lock the owner up
That guy on the end was definitely telling a joke and then was like guess I better get serious again
Wish these investigators would also investigate the 92 restaurants that received millions in federal funds in the city of Alameda as well. Ive been counting restaurants in Alameda since I read about these "restaurants" receiving this money in 2020, and the darndest thing keeps happening, not only is there not 92 restaurants in the city of Alameda, its never been close to it. Lots of new business that arent restaurants though since 20.
It was his first time so he’ll be ok lol the lawyers will get his back many people got away with it as it was first time covid happened lol
This is why the government shudnt have helped these businesses and instead shud have gave out monthly stimulus. This aint the first story of fraud many businesses used the covid relief fund not to retain their employees but filled their pockets. If u want the money to reach REAL people give it to them DIRECTLY.
Their day will come
I think a lot of these “ghost” restaurants you see on DoorDash are exactly this scam. They serve one or two customers with their “brand” out of their house or group kitchen but collected money as if they actually had a brick and mortar restaurant.
only the investigate Chinese
All those “small businesses” that leached money via PPE loans should be investigated next.
I know TH-camrs who applied for PPE loans that got them because they said their channel was affected due to covid!! I'm like what the.......
@@karenreynolds349 Name checks out.
There’s thousands of “businesses” that applied for PP loans. I’m disgusted when is tax season and have to pay thousands of dollars that end up in yacht/exotic car rentals, casinos, designer clothes, houses, etc from thousands of people commiting frauds. And the IRS happily dispensing these loans with no thorough investigation.
The sickest about the PPE loans game was loan forgiveness was built right into the guidelines, these beggars knew they were never going to have to pay back the money, and the American family would foot the bill.
You can look up the names of people who got these PPP loans. I personally knew a guy who claimed he had a “business” generating just enough revenue to not need further documentation. I reported him.
"Fishy" lol, Sea Food buffet 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 LMAO
Guy: " I dont think Im going there"
News reporter: "Why?"
Guy: "cause its fishy" *Punchline delivered
Glad someone else caught it 😂😂
Nobody needs sushi...parasites! Get a side of ivermectin.
Who they really should investigate is the person(s) who approved of the loan/grant.
For sure. What about all the other fraudsters not being blasted on social media.
🤔
One problem was that the gov was intent on getting the money out. That meant little oversight.
I know a trucker that got over 50Gs in guaranteed "loans". Used it to go to vacation in florida and cali.
His work was not affected, just proceedures.
@@dgronzega8073 yeah? Wouldn't be right not to report him.
It’s a setup to be honest
Didn't they shut the one down in Daly City for not paying employees?
N the one in concord that was there forever but they failed a “health inspection”
This is why you don't bail out businesses. If you want to help workers, you do it directly.
Actually it does not matter. When the government gives away free money, there will be crooks taking advantage of it. That's a guarantee.
That's not how it works. they will only investigate those without real connections. lol. it's like bailing out banks instead of the home owners in 08 housing crisis. The marketing of these program are to help people but in reality it's just fattens up the rich and well connected. lol.
Yesh workers will go directly to best buy to get new Tvs or even gamble lol
@@New-bw4kz How is that any different than paying the business which then pays the employees? sigh~ the govt can easily manage the money via payroll information from social security and pay the employees as if it's paid from the employer instead of giving lump sum amount to the companies.
@@Steven-xf8mz nice rebuttal !!!!
There needs to be more follow up update videos on TH-cam. I'm curious of what happened as a result of their crime. There are a lot of people who took relief funds just to put it in their pockets. It will catch up to them eventually.
30 employees get you 5 million paying ppl min wage
This was still a despicable and criminal act, but there are a few things you should know. 30 employees is not the only overhead cost of running a restaurant. You might also have rent for the shopping center, utilities, repairs, food ingredients and kitchen/operating supplies. Also, you cannot know what length of time this covid relief was calculated to last. Also, the cultural precedent is that servers get minimum wage plus tips. As a former Red Robin employee who worked in that same mall, I can tell you that take-home pay with server tips is closer to $20-$26/hour.
when the United States of America is the plaintiff you know you're f*****
i think this happened on a much larger scale country wide.
5 million? To a mall restaurant? Our government is insane.
Yeah things don’t make sense here. Especially California we are a state ran by Crackheads I swear to god.
It’s possible that lease is high but our government babysits fraudsters
these dudes never look at the information when they write checks. Their job is to hand out money an not worry about what gets wasted. The shit is so ineficient its insane
Are we really surprised by this? Imagine how many more like him are out there.
Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of restaurants did this..this guy isn’t the only owners that do this when they should be helpin out their employees etc & meanwhile they up the prices on menus and add percentages to your total bill
Distraction from the big ones done by the corporations.
Yep, major medias are xenophobias and drum it up when they find an Asian offender. They don’t show pictures of usual suspects or big corporations. Major medias are run by a bunch of racists. You see the pattern.
Saying It's fishy to a sushi resto i like the pun
The Walmart of sushi.
The Feds aren’t playing with him. Lock him up and make him pay restitution!
They should start with the politicians first
How could it be his fault entirely if it was approved to begin with?
@@browncatwithblurredbackgro2461 no, I think that is a matter of your biased opinions.
The feds are in on it stupid. If only they could all be locked up.
Lmao !!! I've only ate there once ... but that's funny ! Homie tries to pocket millions of dollars and got caught 🤣
Fake and toxic foods proliferate in China/Food safety issues are shocking, and everyone gets hurt th-cam.com/video/GYr87XCAa48/w-d-xo.html
Those sushi were fresh, very fishy owner. 😆
@@rockhard9369 ha ha the owner is now the sushi at court.
They also serve Menudo, Posole', and taquitos. It's a hidden menu.
Close them down
Netflix better jump on this asap cuz this could be a huge series, “THE PANDEMIC PANDAS” airs January 1st
"It's fishy" waka waka!
This was shameful and he should pay the loan back and spend time in jail.
That place was disgusting to begin with. Now the owners are corrupt?...NEVER going back. The money should've went to the employers, and that money he used to line his personal pockets could've been used by other restaurants who had to close down due to lack of funding.
Money could’ve been used for fresher food at least 🥴
They only mention one owner so perhaps the partner had no idea?
I went there a few weeks ago and the food was great. The owner is a piece of trash though.
I’m not gonna lie, I used to like that place hehe 🐖
you tell them!!! i agree with u !! fuck them and fuc !!
A LOT of restaurants and other businesses did this!!
Of course and each will get their day in court. You know how slow the government works I won’t be surprise if we here more cases like this.
people are still going down from the ppp loans lol
never cared to wait in that line anyway 😂
Business owners should have never been given Covid relief money.
It was a Trump Giveaway.
they should have spent it on illegal immigrants instead?
@@asodcficc You are so weird. Why would you make such a lame comment? Grow up.
@@fishyfool Yes blame Trump for everything. We only passed one covid bill and only Trump signed one. 🤡
@@jimdoe3288 he’s still the cause for inflation giving everyone so much money that who wants to work anymore?
How did he even get granted that much??!
that much? its nothing just think walmark best buy and 711 other big companies! its called corruption, the government is washing TAX money back to big companies
Can’t tell if that “it’s fishy” line was a intentional pun
Same 😂
Im surprised the government is stupid enough to give 3.5 million in relief to one business alone, that should be enough to give to multiple businesses.
My aunt worked at the place right behind the restaurant and she said that place had cockroaches and mice coming into her store from them. The place is suuuuper gross and was shut down for a few months because of it
not surprised. when i ate there like 7-8 years ago i got food poisoning 2x. never went back again. if someone invited me to the place for a special occasion i straight up tell them, sorry that place is disgusting.
So your aunt's restaurant has roaches too
Thanks for telling me
"Its fishy!" You cannot convince me that wasn't a joke that went right over the interviewers head. 😂😂😂
I used to love this place back when it used to be Todai and celebrated birthdays there. Now ill never come back and I will share this with all my friends and family
why do people eat here? it’s so bad.
cause mostly out of towners, or special occasions. lol... they dont know where to go. so they say "all you can eat" since everyone in the household has a different taste buds
Sue him
Yet corporations get away with anything 🙄
Na. $3.5 million sounds about right. 1 year of rent in a San Jose mall. loool
Hell yeah. Glad they found this scam. Never ever going there again either and telling all my friends about it. Better support honest businesses.
What an honest citizen
More people should know about this and stop going there!
Nice pun…the guy at the end said the whole situation was “fishy”, and we’re talking about a sushi and seafood buffet 😂
He said cuz is fishy😂
Duh… of course I’m going back to China with that million dollars check! 🤣
Before this happened , I remembered they had to close the place for a short while because of rodents and roaches , that was fishy already, who knows what they served , ewww
Not true. Never happened to the best of my knowledge.
@@johnnykwon8173 definitely did happened. They had to temporarily closed bc they failed their inspection 😬
@@ln8330 I’m surprised I’ve never once heard of it as I used to go there often. It was better as Todai’s, my opinion.
@@johnnykwon8173 if you don't know then don't assume and say it's not true, it was in the news , so be quite 💩
@@susanjavier2008 that person is just trolling everyone. Most likely the owners buddy
People should stop giving business to these restaurants until it is out of business.
How did he not laugh when he said "cause it's fishy " about a sushi restaurant lol
lmao why are they interviewing random people at the mall
I'm sure he is already back home in Vietnam
He is Chinese . The name can tell.
Chinese dude
chinese guy owning an AYCE makes since... vietnamese usually own pho joints
@@jamesnguyen7069 Yes.
We visit that establishment a lot w my family when I used to live in San Jose what a numbnutz that guy 🤨
How are they still open?
3.5m in relief fund itself is govt misusing itself
when will NBC be charged with mis info?
Definitely unfair for small businesses 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I heard from town, that the owner is a gambler. He refused to pay his employees, and spend it on gambling..
Billionaires do this all the time and why they don’t get put on the news breaks my heart. Put billionaires on the news more about there accounts and what they’ve done because friends of the wealthy elite also got Covid relief checks of which they don’t need.
Lol. Frank. Apparently your not even close. billionaires want to stay billionaires. And they sure don’t want to go to jail. Middle class and Poor people do these scams.
@@chrisnorton6716 you haven’t done proper research , your opinion is not needed as what I said is valid.
@Incomeking they don’t pay workers a living wage , the airlines received aid and they didn’t give it to there workers thus why the airlines are short staffed if the aid worked then there would be no issues. Do your research before commenting.
True I just saw another video where it says 70%+ of the money went to peoples pocket, not the workers
“Its fishy” Lol that was pretty funny
He thought he was so damn funny “fishy” 🤣🤣
I ate there, not very fresh sea food and not very high quality portions. And so many people waste so much food is beyond me. Still can stuff up for a descent price nonetheless.
Lol the pun he used 😂
There's something fishy going on this Seafood Buffet
It's really the govt's fault. When you hand out millions of dollars like it was free candy, what do you expect people to do?
They made way more from this pandemic im sure they knew people were going to take advantage of this
Like biden’s giveaways… resulting im inflation
This is the reason irs is hiring all those agents, it’s never free, you pay for it now or later
After I worked at a state run facility that was locked down during COVID. I should receive some of this millions to cover the place I put my life in to take care of the elderly and disabled. Take the house and put the family out on the street. No problem with that. A tent would be a good wake up call.
I would’ve done this too, I’m a food business owner, but the process was too long Lol
And I know plenty of other businesses that have done the same thing 😂
Greedy
What a surprise! Shut the restaurant and give him a large fine.
My family & I was so excited to try this place. We drove 3 hours there and got food poison. Let me tell you the ride home was not fun at all. First & last time going there.
When it comes to money you will never win people don't understand that
Misusing? How kind of them misusing the word!!!
Okay. He is only one of them who got caught. Where are the others?
Why the he’ll does it take 3.5 million to help cover expenses of one restaurant? Seems like the government made it too easy…..
Boycott this nasty restaurant. They already charged too much for the same items. Owner is a criminal.👹👹👹
Pffft my ex partner used covid relief funds to take his granddaughter to disneyworld
I'm taking my business elsewhere! Seems like a crooked owner.
What a disgrace. Lock him him for a long time.
They could have spent that on fixing the bats and saved the world 😀
Did he even try to pay his employee’s?
It’s “fishy” 😂
That restaurant does not need $3.5 million 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are many people who,did this, I’m happy they are coming after these thieves!
Should investigate lot of other businesses period!
"Because it's fishy" He's got to be a dad.
Its a Sushi restaurant, Tim said he's not going back because its "Fishy" lol
According to the report only the 50% owner is in the wrong so the rest of the business should be unscathed. But I guess people don't understand business. If the David guy was the only one named in the indictment he is probably the only one doing shady stuff.
wow
Why is someone as evil as him became an owner while kind people always despised and stepped on by the bosses and society?
my families and i will no longer support his business and never go back. i will not recommend this business to anyone ever again. i don't support greed. there are honest business that really needed it. i needed it but didn't get it because of people like him that abused the help and took most of what was available for small business. i hope the government gets every penny back. and he gets jail time
do not eat at this place anymore pls do not eat here
This is real life, those aid targeting poor people always end up in the pocket of rich people.
Greedy!!
Lock them up