Family Restaurant Fined For Reopening Beats The Rap In Court

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Family Restaurant Fined For Reopening Beats The Rap In Court

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/10/21/family-restaurant-fined-reopening-beats-rap-court/

Taste of Sicily is a restaurant in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Back in the early days of the pandemic, the siblings who own the joint, Michael Mangano and Christine Wartluft, complied with the mandates being issued and shut down their establishment. But in May, they had finally had enough, so they cleaned the place up and made allowances for social distancing and other precautions for any diners who wished to do so and they reopened. This flew in the face of Democratic Governor Tom Wolf’s orders and the restaurant was soon hit with almost $10,000 in fines for noncompliance.

In an episode that would have made Brigadier General Anthony “NUTS” McAuliffe proud, Mangano issued a response to the state government saying, “I’m not paying crap.” That led to the state taking the restaurant to court to force the payment of the non-compliance fines. This week the case was finally concluded and the owners were found not guilty.