Cipriani Big’s Humvee Reflux
Indigestion for Giuseppe?
By Geoffrey Gray
Banquet bon vivant Giuseppe Cipriani has turned over financial records to the Manhattan D.A.’s office as part of an investigation into his company’s income-tax filings, says his lawyer, Stanley Arkin. The investigation began last year after Cipriani’s ex-vice-president, Dennis Pappas, once called the “financial consigliere” for the Colombo crime family, was indicted on insurance-fraud charges. (He did jail time in the nineties for tax evasion and racketeering.) Prosecutors claim Pappas worked off the books for Cipriani in exchange for gifts, like use of an apartment and a black Humvee, and are now checking to see if other employees had similar under-the-table arrangements. “We’ve been cooperating,” Arkin says. “I like my client. He’s a good guy with a great business.”
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/32402/
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No secret on the 'street' for years. Got in bed with them the mid '90's and they never go away. They always look ridiculous having dinner in there because they never fit in (literally).
i thought i heard this "investigation" was part of the reason the Piers project fell through (or at least got downsized)
You are correct abbe
GC's organization will be gone over with a fine tooth comb
GC's organization will be gone over with a fine tooth comb
QUOTE (MONEYMAN @ Jun 5 2007, 10:59 AM) 
You are correct abbe
GC's organization will be gone over with a fine tooth comb
GC's organization will be gone over with a fine tooth comb
sigh
yah somehow the word "colonoscopy" comes to mind
Those kind of audits are even more painfull
This is a terrible thing for all involved.
My greatest concern...
Will this affect Maurizio's sunny disposition when we go upstairs?
My greatest concern...
Will this affect Maurizio's sunny disposition when we go upstairs?
QUOTE (Don Logan @ Jun 5 2007, 04:04 PM)
This is a terrible thing for all involved.
My greatest concern...
Will this affect Maurizio's sunny disposition when we go upstairs?
My greatest concern...
Will this affect Maurizio's sunny disposition when we go upstairs?
LOL.
And here I was, concerned that this might affect the quality of the food.
Here's the UPDATE:
Cipriani owners plead guilty to tax evasion
Published: July 31, 2007 - 10:42 am
(AP) — New York City restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani and his father pleaded guilty Tuesday to evading $10 million in state and city taxes.
Cipriani operates the famous Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, as well as Harry Cipriani downtown, Cipriani Dolci at Grand Central Terminal, and Cipriani 42nd Street.
Giuseppe and Arrigo Cipriani, along with their corporation, admitted in state Supreme Court to knowingly filing falsified tax returns for 2003 and 2004.
Dennis Pappas, a reputed mob money adviser who was vice president of Cipriani USA, was sentenced July 2 to prison for cheating Social Security and three insurance companies out of more than $1 million by filing false disability claims.
I love this town
Cipriani owners plead guilty to tax evasion
Published: July 31, 2007 - 10:42 am
(AP) — New York City restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani and his father pleaded guilty Tuesday to evading $10 million in state and city taxes.
Cipriani operates the famous Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, as well as Harry Cipriani downtown, Cipriani Dolci at Grand Central Terminal, and Cipriani 42nd Street.
Giuseppe and Arrigo Cipriani, along with their corporation, admitted in state Supreme Court to knowingly filing falsified tax returns for 2003 and 2004.
Dennis Pappas, a reputed mob money adviser who was vice president of Cipriani USA, was sentenced July 2 to prison for cheating Social Security and three insurance companies out of more than $1 million by filing false disability claims.
I love this town
yikes
ouch.
$10 MILLION ??
does that mean jail time ??
does that mean jail time ??
That could mean jail time with a plea bargan and payback of tax,interest and penalty
It's time to make a deal.................
It's time to make a deal.................
..."they will have to pay about $10 million in back taxes and will have an independent tax monitor at the family businesses until 2011. They will not serve any jail time", a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3431946
http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3431946
Glad that there's no jail time
But 10 million over 4 years is nothing to sneeze at
But 10 million over 4 years is nothing to sneeze at
QUOTE (MONEYMAN @ Jul 31 2007, 05:17 PM)
But 10 million over 4 years is nothing to sneeze at
I would bet that the Ciprianis have at least 5 times that, laying around in the Caymans.
I see some of the commenters on that ABC News article saying they're surprised there's no jail time. But, other people have owed the IRS that amount, or more, (Queen Lattifa, Bobby Brown e.g.) recently, and they didn't do any jail time, either.
didn't abbe used to go out with giuseepe cipriani?
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
QUOTE (whats anorexia? @ Aug 1 2007, 12:03 PM)
didn't abbe used to go out with giuseepe cipriani?
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
"... has been "internet-rumored" to be romantically linked with Giuseppe Cipriani (due to a recent week-long visit to his private estate in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which she asserts was "purely business." Diaz laughs, "He wishes.")..."
http://pxthis.invisionzone.com/index.php?s...dpost&p=164
QUOTE (whats anorexia? @ Aug 1 2007, 12:03 PM)
didn't abbe used to go out with giuseepe cipriani?
no i did not
although i admit i did have something of a little crush on him. in that ya-just-gotta-loooove-a-sweet-smart-handsome-bazillionaire-but-ohmylord-i-wouldn't-fuck-him-with-somebody-else's-dick-on-a-ten-foot-pole kind of way.
eehee heee i'm not trying to brag or anything (actually, i totally am) but i HAVE flipped a player or two in my day, thank you very much.
THAT ONE though ??
he must be the fucking mount everest of players.
THAT ONE though ??
he must be the fucking mount everest of players.
QUOTE (abbe @ Aug 2 2007, 12:17 PM)
i HAVE flipped a player or two in my day, thank you very much.
That must be one helluva hot spatula you got there.
[P.S. Get a fucking room.]
QUOTE
On the Ciprianis Cooking Pasta — and the Books!
Last time we were at Downtown Cipriani, a duplicate of the Wall Street bull was on display near the sidewalk curb, where no less than two Lamborghinis were parked. The message seemed clear: Play the system well and you will be duly rewarded with a bimbo in a Lambo. Turns out, of course, that the Ciprianis themselves weren’t exactly playing by the book (having just pleaded guilty to $10 million in tax evasion), and Daily Intel has some characteristically cogent thoughts on the matter.
Ciprianis Learn That Rich People Have to Pay Taxes, Too, Even in the Bush Era [Daily Intel] http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/08/on_cip..._the_books.html
Last time we were at Downtown Cipriani, a duplicate of the Wall Street bull was on display near the sidewalk curb, where no less than two Lamborghinis were parked. The message seemed clear: Play the system well and you will be duly rewarded with a bimbo in a Lambo. Turns out, of course, that the Ciprianis themselves weren’t exactly playing by the book (having just pleaded guilty to $10 million in tax evasion), and Daily Intel has some characteristically cogent thoughts on the matter.
Ciprianis Learn That Rich People Have to Pay Taxes, Too, Even in the Bush Era [Daily Intel] http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/08/on_cip..._the_books.html
QUOTE
Ciprianis Learn That Rich People Have to Pay Taxes, Too, Even in the Bush Era
20070801leona.jpg
Fellow tax cheat Leona Helmsley, leaving federal court in 1989.Photo: Time & Life Photos/Getty Images
We were trying to put our finger on what, exactly, irks us so much about the Cipriani family's pleading guilty to evading $10 million of state and city taxes, and then it came to us. The Ciprianis' chosen milieu is ostentatious, eighties-style luxury: They run the Rainbow Room (home to, in ex–line cook Anthony Bourdain's memorable phrase, "captains of industry … eating garbage at the top of the world"), Harry's Bar in Venice, and, of course, the half-dozen eponymous gilded troughs here in Manhattan. It's thus pretty safe to say that just about all of their fortune is made off those just as fortunate. So not only do we have George Bush cutting taxes for the wealthiest one percent, we also have the people who feed this one percent hoarding the money that's now escaped taxation twice. It's the ultimate raspberry to the trickle-down theory: In the words of another master, Leona Helmsley, "only little people pay taxes." Big people post bail.
Ciprianis Plead Guilty in $10 Million N.Y. Tax Case [Bloomberg] http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/08/fello...na_helmsle.html
20070801leona.jpg
Fellow tax cheat Leona Helmsley, leaving federal court in 1989.Photo: Time & Life Photos/Getty Images
We were trying to put our finger on what, exactly, irks us so much about the Cipriani family's pleading guilty to evading $10 million of state and city taxes, and then it came to us. The Ciprianis' chosen milieu is ostentatious, eighties-style luxury: They run the Rainbow Room (home to, in ex–line cook Anthony Bourdain's memorable phrase, "captains of industry … eating garbage at the top of the world"), Harry's Bar in Venice, and, of course, the half-dozen eponymous gilded troughs here in Manhattan. It's thus pretty safe to say that just about all of their fortune is made off those just as fortunate. So not only do we have George Bush cutting taxes for the wealthiest one percent, we also have the people who feed this one percent hoarding the money that's now escaped taxation twice. It's the ultimate raspberry to the trickle-down theory: In the words of another master, Leona Helmsley, "only little people pay taxes." Big people post bail.
Ciprianis Plead Guilty in $10 Million N.Y. Tax Case [Bloomberg] http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/08/fello...na_helmsle.html
Gotta love how Grub Street calls Intelligencer 'characteristically cogent' even though just about everyone in the world knows that the Cipriani businesses aren't 'financially independent'. It doesn't take a cogent genius to figure out that alot of the money that was supposed to go to the IRS was being kept by the Cipriani 'partners'.
QUOTE (abbe @ Aug 2 2007, 12:17 PM)
eehee heee i'm not trying to brag or anything (actually, i totally am) but i HAVE flipped a player or two in my day, thank you very much.
THAT ONE though ??
he must be the fucking mount everest of players.
THAT ONE though ??
he must be the fucking mount everest of players.
I think his father is worse.
QUOTE (whats anorexia? @ Aug 1 2007, 12:03 PM)
didn't abbe used to go out with giuseepe cipriani?
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
http://gawker.com/news/the-italian-job/giu...ista-284492.php
he's cute!
Giuseppe is very good looking. But, Sasha is much more handsome.
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ Aug 2 2007, 02:04 PM)
Giuseppe is very good looking. But, Sasha is much more handsome.
oh YOU THINK SO do you ?
do i need to introduce you to my baseball bat, miss thing ?
QUOTE (abbe @ Aug 2 2007, 03:53 PM)
oh YOU THINK SO do you ?
do i need to introduce you to my baseball bat, miss thing ?
do i need to introduce you to my baseball bat, miss thing ?
Hm. Maybe!
Just kidding!
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ Aug 2 2007, 02:04 PM)
Giuseppe is very good looking. But, Sasha is much more handsome.
sasha has no google images
He looks a liitle like David Bouley, but taller, thinner and more dapper (think European).
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ Aug 3 2007, 12:05 PM)
He looks a liitle like David Bouley, but taller, thinner and more dapper (think European).
Oh, really? That's pretty funny, because I heard somewhere that Sasha and Abbe look more like this.
aha ha ha ha
digress much ?? you dorks
ANYWAYS
yah so i'm vaguely aware there's a rumor floating around that giuseppe-cipriani is facing "mandatory jail time"
so i just wanted to refute by stating i heard somewheres else this is totally "not true."
digress much ?? you dorks
ANYWAYS
yah so i'm vaguely aware there's a rumor floating around that giuseppe-cipriani is facing "mandatory jail time"
so i just wanted to refute by stating i heard somewheres else this is totally "not true."
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Aug 3 2007, 12:16 PM)
Wait I said they are a hotter version of Rupert and Wendi. And by that I meant much hotter. Especially considering I would never have guessed Abbster is 39.
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ Aug 3 2007, 12:05 PM)
He looks a liitle like David Bouley, but taller, thinner and more dapper (think European).
That is an uncanny resemblance.
QUOTE
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072007/news/...h_gregorian.htm
CIPRIANI CLAN FIGHTS TOY BUILDING BIGS OVER EVICTION BID
By DAREH GREGORIAN
CIP OFF THE OL' BLOCK: Father-and-son restaurateurs Giuseppe and Arrigo Cipriani...
August 7, 2007 -- The latest creation from the embattled Cipriani family of restau ateurs involves turning lemons into lemonade.
The family filed a $20 million lawsuit against its landlord at the Flatiron District's Toy Building yesterday - one week after the father- and- son bosses of the luxury-dining dynasty agreed to pay $10 million to set tle tax- fraud charges.
Cipriani 200 filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court after the owners of the building at 200 Fifth Ave. - which the catering business uses for weddings and bar mitzvahs - notified it that they were terminating its lease because of the criminal case.
The notice of termination had attached to it newspaper clippings, including a Post article, recounting the guilty pleas of 75-year-old patriarch Arrigo Cipriani and his 41-year-old globe-yachting son, Giuseppe.
Arrigo pleaded guilty to felony false tax filings, while Giuseppe, who runs the company's U.S. operations, copped to misdemeanor false filing.
"This is a heartless landlord who is trying to take advantage of the guilty plea," said Cipriani lawyer Steven Wagner.
"It's reprehensible that the landlord doesn't care about the brides who have scheduled their weddings there."
The Toy Building notice seemed to contend that the family's legal problems enabled the landlords to seize the space for themselves, the suit says.
The family feels otherwise, arguing that the lease shouldn't be canceled "based upon newspaper articles or the alleged notoriety of either Giuseppe Cipriani or companies and persons not directly involved in the business operations of the catering facilities at the Toy Building."
The family's suit calls the landlord's move just the latest in the owner's efforts "to maliciously and wrongfully interfere with and to deprive Cipriani from use of the premises and the lobby."
They said the building's new owner has been trying to kick them out, as it did other tenants, for years now.
"Cipriani has invested in excess of $10 million in improvements to the premises and creating a unique, first-class catering facility," the suit says, and it has "weddings, bar mitzvahs and other events planned to take place" there through 2009.
The suit seeks $10 million in money damages, contending the building's actions have already cost them business, and $10 million in punitive damages.
A judge yesterday signed a temporary order stopping the eviction pending a hearing at the end of the month.
"We have the law on our side," Wagner said.
The Toy Building's lawyer could not be reached last night.
dareh.gregorian@nypost.com
CIPRIANI CLAN FIGHTS TOY BUILDING BIGS OVER EVICTION BID
By DAREH GREGORIAN
CIP OFF THE OL' BLOCK: Father-and-son restaurateurs Giuseppe and Arrigo Cipriani...
August 7, 2007 -- The latest creation from the embattled Cipriani family of restau ateurs involves turning lemons into lemonade.
The family filed a $20 million lawsuit against its landlord at the Flatiron District's Toy Building yesterday - one week after the father- and- son bosses of the luxury-dining dynasty agreed to pay $10 million to set tle tax- fraud charges.
Cipriani 200 filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court after the owners of the building at 200 Fifth Ave. - which the catering business uses for weddings and bar mitzvahs - notified it that they were terminating its lease because of the criminal case.
The notice of termination had attached to it newspaper clippings, including a Post article, recounting the guilty pleas of 75-year-old patriarch Arrigo Cipriani and his 41-year-old globe-yachting son, Giuseppe.
Arrigo pleaded guilty to felony false tax filings, while Giuseppe, who runs the company's U.S. operations, copped to misdemeanor false filing.
"This is a heartless landlord who is trying to take advantage of the guilty plea," said Cipriani lawyer Steven Wagner.
"It's reprehensible that the landlord doesn't care about the brides who have scheduled their weddings there."
The Toy Building notice seemed to contend that the family's legal problems enabled the landlords to seize the space for themselves, the suit says.
The family feels otherwise, arguing that the lease shouldn't be canceled "based upon newspaper articles or the alleged notoriety of either Giuseppe Cipriani or companies and persons not directly involved in the business operations of the catering facilities at the Toy Building."
The family's suit calls the landlord's move just the latest in the owner's efforts "to maliciously and wrongfully interfere with and to deprive Cipriani from use of the premises and the lobby."
They said the building's new owner has been trying to kick them out, as it did other tenants, for years now.
"Cipriani has invested in excess of $10 million in improvements to the premises and creating a unique, first-class catering facility," the suit says, and it has "weddings, bar mitzvahs and other events planned to take place" there through 2009.
The suit seeks $10 million in money damages, contending the building's actions have already cost them business, and $10 million in punitive damages.
A judge yesterday signed a temporary order stopping the eviction pending a hearing at the end of the month.
"We have the law on our side," Wagner said.
The Toy Building's lawyer could not be reached last night.
dareh.gregorian@nypost.com
eehehhee eheee "lemons into lemonade"
pleeze. those mutherfukkers could turn lemons into a fucking lemon orchard.
QUOTE (MILFweed @ Aug 6 2007, 04:03 PM)
Wait I said they are a hotter version of Rupert and Wendi. And by that I meant much hotter. Especially considering I would never have guessed Abbster is 39.
YAH. i'm OLDER than ms.wendi-deng so nyeeah
and whatever-- theRoopster is cute and all (like a sharpei) but he sure aint no fucking WrapKing thank you very much.
QUOTE (MILFweed @ Aug 6 2007, 04:04 PM)
That is an uncanny resemblance.
you really think so ??
hmm.
actually i think sasha has bigger
uhhh
hands.
QUOTE
Why is Giuseppe's jacket so tight?
And uh, yeah, little "Harry" there, is just screaming "Player"!
QUOTE (abbe @ Aug 7 2007, 11:40 AM)
you really think so ??
hmm.
actually i think sasha has bigger
uhhh
hands.
hmm.
actually i think sasha has bigger
uhhh
hands.
Where's the :rolleyes-ugh-groan: emoticon?
QUOTE (abbe @ Aug 7 2007, 11:36 AM)
and whatever-- theRoopster is cute and all (like a sharpei)
wouldn't rupert have.........uh..........hands........also like a shar pei??????????????????
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Aug 7 2007, 01:10 PM)
Where's the :rolleyes-ugh-groan: emoticon?
next to the get-a-fucking-room emoticon??????????????????
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Aug 7 2007, 01:00 PM)
Why is Giuseppe's jacket so tight?
all that pasta..................................
QUOTE (john.smith @ Aug 7 2007, 01:16 PM)
wouldn't rupert have.........uh..........hands........also like a shar pei??????????????????
QUOTE (john.smith @ Aug 7 2007, 01:17 PM)
next to the get-a-fucking-room emoticon??????????????????
QUOTE (john.smith @ Aug 7 2007, 01:18 PM)
all that pasta..................................
LOL.
Look out, somebody's on a roll..........................................................................
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ Aug 7 2007, 01:10 PM)
Where's the :rolleyes-ugh-groan: emoticon?
in your case, that would be the same as the :argh-i-am-so-fucking-jellus: emoticon
Tara Reid has a new romantic target
N.Y. restaurant king Giuseppe Cipriani. The two were spotted getting frisky at Cannes' VIP Room on Friday night. "Tara and Giuseppe were making out for hours," a spy tells us. "But she was also kissing two other guys, so it's not like Giuseppe's going to bring her home to Mom." But the Italian stallion did prevail that night - he was caught leading the F-list actress back to his boat in the wee hours of the morning.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/..._first_son.html
Eeewwwww
N.Y. restaurant king Giuseppe Cipriani. The two were spotted getting frisky at Cannes' VIP Room on Friday night. "Tara and Giuseppe were making out for hours," a spy tells us. "But she was also kissing two other guys, so it's not like Giuseppe's going to bring her home to Mom." But the Italian stallion did prevail that night - he was caught leading the F-list actress back to his boat in the wee hours of the morning.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/..._first_son.html
Eeewwwww
I'm not sure I would consider tapping this as "Prevailing".
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 19 2009, 05:17 PM)
I'm not sure I would consider tapping this as "Prevailing".
QUOTE
prevail |priˈvāl|
verb [ intrans. ]
prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious : it is hard for logic to prevail over emotion.
• be widespread in a particular area at a particular time; be current : an atmosphere of crisis prevails | [as adj. ] ( prevailing) the prevailing political culture.
• ( prevail on/upon) persuade (someone) to do something : she was prevailed upon to give an account of her work.
verb [ intrans. ]
prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious : it is hard for logic to prevail over emotion.
• be widespread in a particular area at a particular time; be current : an atmosphere of crisis prevails | [as adj. ] ( prevailing) the prevailing political culture.
• ( prevail on/upon) persuade (someone) to do something : she was prevailed upon to give an account of her work.
Maybe it was a typo, and they meant she was the one that was prevailing.
[Yeah, OK, I can hear your groans from here, people.]
QUOTE (Don Logan @ May 19 2009, 05:17 PM)
I'm not sure I would consider tapping this as "Prevailing".
http://media.egotastic.com/media/pictures/...id-bikini-1.jpg
I'm glad I quoted your post, or I would never have seen that link to the pic. (The 'img' tags somehow made it disappear.)
Wait, did I say 'glad'? I meant.... something else.
QUOTE (Dick Johnson @ May 19 2009, 06:41 PM)
http://media.egotastic.com/media/pictures/...id-bikini-1.jpg
I'm glad I quoted your post, or I would never have seen that link to the pic. (The 'img' tags somehow made it disappear.)
That was divine intervention - for the benefit of any poor souls who may have been eating while reading the forum.
Wait, did I say 'glad'? I meant.... something else.
Heh - it's a bad scene - that's for sure.
I'm glad I quoted your post, or I would never have seen that link to the pic. (The 'img' tags somehow made it disappear.)
That was divine intervention - for the benefit of any poor souls who may have been eating while reading the forum.
Wait, did I say 'glad'? I meant.... something else.
Heh - it's a bad scene - that's for sure.
Oh my god I saw the pics of her botched liposuction on her stomach but I never knew it was also botched in the back. I've met Giuseppe and he seems very charming so this is somewhat disappointing and not just because she's physically deformed.
I hope for his sake that this is one of those rumors that turn out not to be true. Why, Giuseppe, why!?! 
i thought tara-reid got fixed ?
i mean-- didn't she go through a whole mess of plastic surgery and whatnot and now she looks normal again ? i thought that's what i'd heard.
whatever
i mean-- didn't she go through a whole mess of plastic surgery and whatnot and now she looks normal again ? i thought that's what i'd heard.
whatever
QUOTE (Inkslinger @ May 20 2009, 12:06 PM)
Why, Giuseppe, why!?! flying trim ? i guess every once in a while you just get whacked in the face. ya know-- like a pie.
ha ha ahaa next time DUCK, MUTHERFUKKER.
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