Loyal customers shared their love for Mary Mahoney’s Old French House on social media over the weekend after the restaurant pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud customers by passing off foreign seafood as Gulf fresh fish. Mahoney’s and co-owner Anthony “Tony” Cvitanovich are set for sentencing Sept. 12. Mahoney’s will forfeit […]
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Mary Mahoney’s pleads guilty to selling frozen, foreign fish as fresh Gulf seafood
For years, Mary Mahoney’s Old French House Restaurant, a Biloxi institution known nationwide, bought foreign, frozen seafood from a local supplier and sold it to unsuspecting customers as fresh Gulf seafood, federal prosecutors allege and the restaurant now has admitted. The restaurant will forfeit $1.35 million to the federal government after pleading guilty Thursday to […]