Yankee ticket deadbeat pleads guilty in NJ to $3.5M tax evasion scheme: feds

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Yankee ticket deadbeat pleads guilty in NJ to $3.5M tax evasion scheme: feds
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A New Jersey guy who previously stiffed the Yankees out of big bucks pleaded guilty in an $3.5 million tax evasion scheme in the Garden State, prosecutors said.

Walter Hass stepped up to the plate for swanky seats in a Yankee Stadium suite and owed the Bronx Bombers more than $626,000 after allegedly skipping out on the bill.Walter Hass, who owned and operated a shipping/logistics company in Oakland, NJ, collected payroll taxes from his employees for eight years but instead of giving the cash to the government used it to fund a luxe lifestyle.

The Yankees claimed Hass agreed to an eight-year deal for eight seats that included food and beverages, according to legal papers.Hass, 62, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court Tuesday to failure to collect, account for and pay payroll taxes between 2014 and 2022.He owed the Bronx Bombers more than $626,000 for a suite, according to court papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court in 2020.

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