BAGEL MAKER IN THE HOLE
| 02 Mar 2015 | 04:40
by dan rivoli
as upper west siders eat their morning bagel each weekend, new york's bagel baron will be in jail.
the owner of h+h bagels on 2239 broadway and west 80th street was sentenced to 50 weekends in jail after copping to tax fraud may 27.
helmer toro, who owns the famous upper west side bagel shop, pled guilty to grand larceny, offering a false instrument for filing and manipulating unemployment insurance tax.
he was originally accused of pocketing money by stealing tax money taken from his employees' paychecks and avoiding unemployment insurance tax through six shell companies.
bloomberg news reported that toro, 59, has to pay back $543,413.