Son of Applebee's restaurant tycoon gets prison after he 'dodged, bobbed and weaved' $1M in child support
Evan Musikantow, son of an Applebee's mogul, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for failing to pay $1 million in child support over two decades.
The son of an Applebee’s restaurant mogul was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to two years in federal prison — the maximum possible punishment under a rarely used law targeting parents who dodge paying child support.The sentence came after Evan Musikantow, 60, was convicted last year of failing for almost two decades to pay support to his ex-wife for their two children, who grew up in the Chicago area. Prosecutors say Musikantow, who lives in Arizona, owes about $1 million — more than half of…
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