Marlboro Country Club Owner Gets Year In Jail For Tax Evasion

MARLBORO, NJ — After admitting he failed to report up to $3.8 million in taxable income, one of the principals of a family-owned Marlboro Township country club was sentenced on Thursday to a year and one day in prison.

Gary Beshara, 66, of Staten Island, is the co-owner of Bella Vista Country Club on School Road in Marlboro. Bella Vista is owned by the Beshara family. As Patch reported earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in June before a federal judge in Trenton to one count of tax evasion. Beshara admitted he directed $3.8 million from the country club for his own personal use, and failed to report it as taxable income.

He used the money to pay off personal line of credit and personal expenses for him and his family between 2011 and 2014, he said.

Beshara was facing up to five years in prison, but he was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison, the Newark field office of the Internal Revenue Service said in a statement to NJ.com.

Beshara also have to pay a $5,000 fine and will be on supervised release for three years once he is out of prison.