Owner of Denny’s Illinois Restaurants Gets 4 Years for Tax Fraud

An Illinois owner of Denny’s restaurants will serve four years in prison after pleading guilty to a fraud that cheated the state of $3 million in sales taxes, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Wednesday.

Raoul said Kenneth Kilberger of Lake in the Hills, Ill., pleaded guilty to sales tax evasion, which is categorized as a Class 1 felony. Kilberger orchestrated a scheme between 2016 and 2020 that hid $42 million in sales from the Illinois Department of Revenue, resulting in a tax loss of $3 million for the state, Raoul said.

Kilberger is president ...