Amanda Ouellette, 38, of Mechanics Falls, Maine, was sentenced today to 30 days in federal prison for stealing withheld taxes from her employees at Daddy O’s, a now-shuttered restaurant in Oxford. The hard numbers don’t lie: from 2009 through 2013, Ouellette pocketed $114,488 in federal income and FICA taxes that should have gone to the IRS.
U.S. District Judge George Z. Singal handed down the sentence after Ouellette pleaded guilty on July 12, 2016, to one count of failing to account for and pay over federal employment taxes. In addition to the jail term, she’ll serve two years under supervised release — eyes on her every move.
Between 2008 and 2013, Ouellette ran Daddy O’s like a local joint with regular hours and a steady crew. Workers punched in, got paid, and trusted her to do the right thing. She withheld taxes from their paychecks — then vanished them into the business’s black hole, never filing required quarterly returns.
The scam lasted five years. Five years of shorting the government, five years of betraying her employees’ trust. The IRS wasn’t getting paper trails or payments. Ouellette treated withheld payroll taxes like petty cash, funneling money meant for Social Security and federal coffers into her operation — or her pockets.
The Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, cracked the case open after a forensic dive into Daddy O’s finances. Audits don’t lie. When agents followed the money, they found a pattern of deliberate non-compliance — not an oversight, but a calculated theft.
Ouellette must now pay full restitution: $114,488. No excuses. No extensions. The sentence marks another win for federal prosecutors in Maine, where U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II continues to push accountability for white-collar crime that hits workers where it hurts — their paychecks and their rights.
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Key Facts
- State: Maine
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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