STATEN ISLAND — The cousin of late reality star "Big Ang" stiffed the government out of $100,000 in sales tax from the West Brighton bar they co-owned, prosecutors said.
SallyAnn Lombardi, 57, who owned the now shuttered Drunken Monkey bar with Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, was arrested Tuesday for tax fraud after she failed to make payments to the state, the New York Daily News first reported.
Lombardi collected sales tax from the 1205 Forest Ave. watering hole from 2009 to 2015, but did not file returns or send the money to the state during that time, according to her criminal complaint.
She was charged with grand larceny and two counts of criminal tax fraud at her arraignment, the Staten Island District Attorney's office said. She was released without bail.
Her lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The arrest comes a month after the family of Abdou Cisse, 46, sued Raiola's estate after he was killed outside of the bar while trying to break up a fight in 2014.
The $1 million wrongful death suit also names Lombardi and Stephen Fasano, who punched Cisse in the head twice and was sentenced to prison for his murder.
The bar lost its liquor license in 2015 after state investigators found Raiola, herself a convicted felon, was the silent owner, the Staten Island Advance reported.
Raiola, the niece of the late head of the Genovese crime family and a star on VH1's "Mob Wives," died in February after a battle with cancer.
