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IRS, DHS, ICE Raid Businesses

Owners of Chuy's restaurants in AZ, CA, indicted

Updated: Wednesday, 20 Apr 2011, 2:42 PM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 20 Apr 2011, 12:17 PM MDT

PHOENIX - The owners of a restaurant chain with locations in Arizona and California have been indicted on suspicion of hiring illegal immigrants and tax evasion.

Federal agents raided 15 Chuy's Mesquite Broiler restaurants on Wednesday in both states and served 20 search warrants.

Arizona locations included 7th Street and Greenway, 32nd Street and Indian School and Cave Creek Road and Cactus.

Immigration Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard says they detained about 40 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at the restaurants.

The father and son owners of the chain of about 20 restaurants and a company accountant were arrested on a 19-count indictment.

The owners were identified as 58-year-old Mark Evenson of Paradise Valley and his son, 39-year-old Christopher Evenson of Oro Valley.

"For nearly two years, these defendants are alleged to have knowingly dodged hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes in order to maintain an illegal workforce," said U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke. "That deceitful practice, which hurts all law-abiding tax payers and employers must stop. There should be no place in our economy for employers who cynically exploit and defy the U.S. tax code to take advantage of illegal labor."

According to the indictment, the Evensons hired illegal immigrants for company's kitchen operations. Those who were authorized to work in the U.S. were hired as servers or in other restaurant jobs.

It's alleged that the illegal workers were paid off the books with no taxes withheld or reported to the I.R.S. Authorized workers received payment using normal payroll.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/bu ... s-04202011

Arizona Chuy's restaurants raided by IRS, immigration agents

by Daniel Gonzalez -
Apr. 20, 2011 01:34 PM
The Arizona Republic

Federal agents Wednesday morning conducted a joint raid at more than a dozen Chuy's Mesquite Broiler restaurants throughout Arizona and California, and the owners were indicted on suspicion of hiring illegal immigrants and tax evasion.

Agents executed search and arrest warrants involving criminal employment and tax law violations, said Vincent Picard, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix. The Internal Revenue Service was also a part of the operation.

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Picard says they detained about 40 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at the restaurants.

The father and son owners of the chain and a company accountant were arrested on a 19-count indictment.

The owners were identified as 58-year-old Mark Evenson of Paradise Valley and his son, 39-year-old Christopher Evenson of Oro Valley, near Tucson, Ariz. An accountant for the chain, Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe was also arrested.

The three are accused of hiring illegal immigrants for company's kitchen operations and paying them under the table.

Chuy's Mesquite Broiler has six restaurants in the Valley, including three in Phoenix, and three more in Glendale, Mesa and Tempe, according to its website. The chain also has five restaurants in Tucson, one in Marana and one in California, according to the website.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoe ... n-brk.html

Good to see I.C.E. doing employment raids again.
Bringing in the I.R.S. is a good move.

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Picard says they detained about 40 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at the restaurants.

something tells me that there are really more than this at the restaurants. this is all that was working at the time of the raids

Chuy's

From Wikipedia

Chuy's is a Tex-Mex chain restaurant headquartered in Austin, Texas.[1] The company has various locations in Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, USA (Austin, San Antonio, Round Rock, Houston, Dallas, Waco, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Birmingham, and Louisville).

The traditional Tex-Mex cuisine includes enchiladas, nachos, quesadillas, and tacos. Every year on Elvis Presley's birthday (January 8), most locations host the Elvis' Birthday Bash, during which a fake Elvis visits the restaurant for some well-known song and dance. Chuy's also annually hosts the Green Chile Festival, celebrating the harvest of the Hatch Green Chiles from Hatch, New Mexico. In addition, Chuy's is a sponsor of community events such as the Hot To Trot 5K and the Children Giving to Children Holiday Parade.

On May 29, 2001, President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol at Chuy's, while on the same night at the same bar, her twin sister Jenna was charged with trying to use a third party's identification to purchase alcohol. [2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuy's

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3 restaurant chain executives indicted on federal immigration, tax charges

Joint ICE, IRS probe alleges Chuy’s hired illegal alien workers and paid them ‘off the books’

PHOENIX – The father and son owners of a regional Mexican restaurant chain, along with the company’s accountant, will be arraigned in federal court in Tucson Thursday on tax and immigration violations contained in a 19-count indictment stemming from a lengthy probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Mark Evenson, 58, of Paradise Valley, Ariz.; his son, Christopher Evenson, 39, of Oro Valley, Ariz., owners of Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler restaurants with outlets in Arizona and California; and an accountant for the chain, Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe, Ariz., are charged with a variety of criminal violations, including the unlawful hiring and harboring of illegal aliens, conspiracy to defraud the IRS and tax evasion. If convicted of all the charges, Mark Evenson faces up to 86 years in prison and a $5.33 million fine; Christopher Evenson faces up to 81 years in prison and a $5.08 million fine; and, Strehlow faces a maximum prison term of 40 years and a $2 million fine.

“For nearly two years, these defendants are alleged to have knowingly dodged hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes in order to maintain an illegal workforce,â€

GOOD! Now when will the illegal aliens get deported?????

"Can you believe this federal employees have to work for a paycheck!"