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June 25, 2009

Judge sentences W-B bowling alley co-owner for tax evasion

Times Leader staff

SCRANTON – An owner of a Wilkes-Barre bowling alley who pleaded guilty three months ago to failing to pay $25,133 in taxes in 2006 was ordered Tuesday to make restitution.

John S. Chacko, 53, of Larksville, also was ordered to pay a fine of $2,500 and a special assessment fee of $100 and placed on three years probation during his sentencing before U.S. District Judge Richard P. Conaboy in federal court in Scranton, court records state.

Chacko, a co-owner of Chacko’s Family Bowling Center, 195 N. Wilkes-Barre Blvd., entered a guilty plea to tax evasion in March. He originally had been charged with 10 counts of failing to report his income on federal tax returns between 2003 and 2007.

Chacko attempted to evade income tax due in 2006 by filing a fraudulent joint tax return to the IRS, according to court documents. He and his wife’s taxable income in 2006 was $138,791.

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