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'Paying taxes is a way to give back to the community, but unfortunately Hankerson chose to use those funds for other means.' 'While ownership of a well-known restaurant in our community has its perks, it also comes with great responsibility,' IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge James Dorsey said. From at least 2012 to 2016, Hankerson failed to remit more than $1 million in payroll taxes, prosecutors said. Shanga Hankerson opened his first restaurant, Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, in Atlanta in 1997. He was the sole owner of the business and was required to withhold payroll taxes from his employees' gross pay. Shanga Hankerson, the son of iconic soul singer Gladys Knight who had been embroiled in a tax scandal involving his now-closed restaurants, Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles, will now be serving time for his crimes, new reports reveal. The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mothers name, federal prosecutors in Atlanta said. During his sentencing Wednesday, Hankerson, who pleaded guilty in July, was also ordered to serve a year of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay more than US$1 million in restitution. Attorney Kurt Erskine said in a news release. The end of an era has come for an Atlanta dining institution. Soul singer and son were involved in legal dispute. Hankerson, 45, 'willfully disregarded his tax obligations for many years,' Acting U.S. Soul music legend Gladys Knight has won her bid to sever all ties with her son’s troubled chicken and waffle business, according to a recent settlement filed in Clayton County Court in Georgia. Gladys Knights name will be removed from Atlanta restaurant. Over the next several years, he opened at least three more locations in Georgia and Washington, D.C. According to TMZ, agents asked customers and employees to leave. Shanga Hankerson opened his first restaurant, Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles, in Atlanta in 1997. ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Revenue raided all three of Gladys Knights Chicken and Waffles restaurants Tuesday afternoon. The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mother's name, federal prosecutors in Atlanta said.

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