Chicago Restaurant Owner Charged With Tax Evasion For Defrauding The State

Chicago, IL – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that an owner of a Chicago restaurant was charged with under-reporting more than $1 million in sales.

Sandra Sanchez, 43, of Morton Grove, was charged in Cook County with theft and tax evasion for defrauding the state out of more than $100,000. As an owner of Cesar’s Restaurant located at 3166 N. Clark St., Madigan alleged Sanchez used an automated sales suppression device to underreport more than $1 million in sales to the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR).

Madigan alleged that between January 2012 and October 2015, Sanchez used a so-called “zapper” or sales suppression software to falsify electronic sales records to avoid paying the full amount of sales and use taxes to the state each month.

Read the full news release here.