The two owners of Sushi Samurai, an Oakland County sushi restaurant, have been charged with embezzling more than $100,000 in sales tax and underreporting their income by a similar amount over the last four years.
Christina Chang and Dong Hyun Chang of Orchard Lake were charged Thursday in Bloomfield 48th District Court with one count of embezzlement over $100,000, conspiracy to embezzle over $100,000, possession of an automated sales suppression device, 59 counts of filing false monthly sale tax returns and five counts of filing false joint income tax returns.
The charges are all felonies, with penalties ranging from five years to up to 20 years in prison and a variety of fines, according to a release from Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. More than $2.5 million in sales were never reported or accounted for in income tax filings between 2012 and 2016, according to the release.