Gregg Reuben made a name for himself in the parking business and has had a pretty good track record over the years, with several parking companies to his name. However, as seen in New York State legal documents, things changed in around 2014. The docs show that Reuben grew concerned with the way his CFO was running their finances, fired him, and hired an accounting firm to look into the issues he was worried about. The firm’s findings? While the CFO had filed returns, they had never been paid — and the money that should have been allocated to paying them was gone.
Soon enough, Reuben was in court for not paying those taxes. And, unfortunately for him, his reasoning that the CFO had hidden things from him didn’t quite stand up in court. On the contrary, per court docs, the presiding judge pointed out that even if it wasn’t his fault that the CFO had done some shady dealings, Reuben had consciously decided to not do routine checks to ensure everything was being paid.
Even with the judgment that Reuben was at fault, he appealed, on the grounds that while he’d been kept in the dark by the CFO, he had done what he could to intervene, as soon as he realized there was a problem. Even so, his appeal was denied.
