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Post by Trix on Aug 29, 2013 20:22:12 GMT -5
Owners of Miguel's Pizza acquitted of charges By Bill Estep — bestep@herald-leader.com The owners of a pizza shop popular with rock climbers in the Red River Gorge have been acquitted of more than 50 counts each of breaking federal banking law. An attorney is now asking a judge to make the government return $300,000 that IRS agents seized from Miguel and Susan Ventura, who run Miguel's Pizza and Climb Shop at Slade in Powell County. "The legally earned money ... has been unavailable to Miguel and Susan Ventura, which has interfered with their right to use the funds to operate their business, which is an asset to the community where they live," Lexington attorney Mark A. Wohlander, who represents Miguel Ventura, said in a motion made public Wednesday. Federal prosecutors have not yet responded to the motion. Read more here: www.kentucky.com/2013/08/29/2793700/owners-of-miguels-pizza-acquitted.html
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