Sarma Melngailis was born on September 10,1972 and is an American chef, cookbook author, businesswoman and convicted criminal.
14 Facts About Sarma Melngailis
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Sarma Melngailis was the owner and co-founder of Pure Food and Wine and One Lucky Duck, both vegan raw food restaurants in New York City.
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Sarma Melngailis was born September 10,1972, in the United States, and was raised in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Sarma Melngailis's father John Sarma Melngailis was born in Riga, Latvia and was a physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Sarma Melngailis's parents divorced when she was nine years old.
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Sarma Melngailis moved to New York City, working at the investment firm Bear Stearns until 1996, then moving to Bain Capital in Boston, working in private equity investment.
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Sarma Melngailis returned to New York City in 1998 and joined a high-yield investment fund at CIBC, but soon left to enroll at New York's French Culinary Institute from which she graduated in 1999.
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Sarma Melngailis addressed the walkout and subsequent closure of both restaurants in a blog post posted in February 2015.
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Sarma Melngailis apologized for the incident, but later deleted the post.
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Sarma Melngailis was wanted for grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, scheme to defraud and violation of labor law.
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Sarma Melngailis' attorneys were reported by Vanity Fair to be planning a "coercive control" defense.
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Sarma Melngailis pleaded guilty in May 2017 to stealing more than $2,000,000 from investors, and scheming to defraud, as well as criminal tax fraud charges.
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Sarma Melngailis received a jail sentence of nearly four months.
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Sarma Melngailis filed for divorce from Strangis in May 2018.