OCEAN CITY, NJ — The owners of the popular Ocean City Pizzeria Manco and Manco have been sentenced for tax evasion, structuring cash payments to avoid reporting requirements and lying to IRS special agents, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said Friday evening.

Charles Bangle, 57, of Somers Point, was sentenced to one year, three months in prison. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, and must pay restitution of $248,560 and a $5,000 fine.

He has until Sept. 10, 2017, to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his sentence.

Mary Bangle, 56, of Somers Point, was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $3,000.



Charles Bangle previously pleaded guilty to a count of evading taxes with respect to his 2010 personal tax returns and a count of structuring financial transactions in 2011 to avoid reporting requirements.

Mary Bangle previously pleaded guilty to a count of knowingly making materially false statements to IRS special agents.



They were originally indicted on 30 counts of tax evasion, 27 of which were to be dismissed as part of the plea deal. Four of those counts were for tax evasion, and 23 were for alleging false statements and structuring bank deposits.

Between 2007 and 2011, the Bangles admitted they skimmed large sums of cash from the popular pizzeria on the Ocean City Boardwalk.



Charles Bangle admitted to substantially under reporting his income on his 2010 U.S. individual income tax return, specifically, failing to report additional taxable income that he deposited in cash into his bank account during that year.



By only reporting $127,955 in 2010 and omitting an additional $263,113 in taxable income, Charles Bangle avoided $91,577 in taxes.



Charles Bangle deposited significant amounts of that cash into their personal bank account at TD Bank in amounts less than $10,000 in order to avoid triggering a Currency Transaction Report from financial institutions to the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Mary Bangle admitted that she lied to IRS special agents who asked her about her personal bank account on May 30, 2012. She claimed that when cash receipts came into the business, she only retained enough to pay that week's payroll and some bills, when in fact she retained cash receipts for her personal use.

