Il Vizio Restorante Italiano Corp. withholds information about pay practices
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – The operator of two Long Island restaurants may have thought they only had to take orders from customers, but now has learned that ignoring the orders of federal investigators and a federal court will get you arrested.
On February 1, 2023, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Louis “Luigi” Prudente, owner of Il Vizio Restorante Italiano Corp., operating as Il Vizio, for repeatedly failing to provide information to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division as part of a compliance investigation that began in May 2021. Acting at the direction of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, the U.S. Marshalls Service arrest of Prudente follows legal action prompted by the owner’s refusal to supply documents required for the division’s investigation.
“The arrest of Il Vizio owner, Louis Prudente, shows that the U.S. Department of Labor will use every available instrument to gather the facts, enforce the law and ensure employers do not hold the law in contempt,” said Regional Solicitor Jeffrey S. Rogoff in New York. “An employer’s refusal to comply with federal investigators is illegal and unacceptable and, as this employer now knows, has significant consequences including arrest.”
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