reBar: Closed and Bankrupt

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 19, 2014

When the owner of reBar, a DUMBO gastropub and wedding venue, disappeared two weeks ago with upwards of $150,000 in deposits, couples and employees were left in the lurch. The restaurateur has since turned himself in and paid bail but now faces up to 15 years in prison. Oren Yaniv, crime and courts reporter for The New York Daily News, discusses the murky legal issues surrounding the reBar case.

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