Peter Thomas Receives Jail Time for Tax Evasion

Last week it was reported that The Real Housewives of Atlanta ex husband, Peter Thomas, was facing a two year prison sentence for failing to pay employee withholding taxes despite deducting the amounts from his employee's pay checks [click here if you missed that].

This week Peter was sentenced to jail time... 

From The Baltimore Banner

Peter Thomas, a restauranteur and former reality TV star who appeared on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” was sentenced Thursday to serve 18 months in federal prison for failing to pay the government more than $2.5 million in employment taxes.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell Sr. also ordered Thomas to spend two years on supervised release and pay restitution.

Thomas, 64, now of Miami, pleaded guilty in June in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, North Carolina, to one count of failure to pay over trust fund taxes.

Between 2017 and 2023, Thomas caused Club One CLT, Sports ONE, Sports ONE CLT, PT Media, Bar One Miami Beach and Bar One Baltimore to fail to pay employment taxes — including more than $1.7 million that was taken from the paychecks of his workers, federal prosecutors reported.