Between January 2016 to October 2022, Drivas was the owner and operator of three restaurants: Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook, N.H. He was the sole shareholder of the Salem restaurant until he sold it to an employee in September 2022. John Drivas, the sole owner of Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, was ordered to serve one year and one day in prison and one year of supervised release afterward.
According to the U.S. attorney's office, Drivas was the owner and operator of three restaurants - Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Massachusetts, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody. Drivas, the owner of Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook paid "under-the-table" wages of $1,496,417 to multiple restaurant employees and did not report those wages to the IRS or pay employment taxes on them from at least January 2017 to June 2022, causing more than $439,000.
John Drivas, of Hampton, NH, pleaded guilty to keeping sales tax and paying employees "under the table" in Salem, Peabody and Seabrook, NH. Drivas owned and operated Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem and Red's Seabrook from 2016 to 2022. John Drivas, 66, the former owner of three North Shore eateries, admitted to orchestrating tax fraud schemes that robbed the IRS and Massachusetts Department of Revenue over several years.
Federal prosecutors say between January 2016 to October 2022, Drivas was the owner and operator of three restaurants: Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Mass., Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody. Red's restaurant owner John Drivas gets jail time for failing to collect and pay taxes and for wire fraud. John Drivas, 66, was the owner and operator of Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Mass., Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, Mass., and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook, N.H, according to a statement.
