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Former owner of Roxbury fried-chicken place convicted for role in Pakistani fried-chicken tax fraud

A federal jury yesterday convicted Burhan Ud Din, 50, of Watertown, on six counts of failing to collect and pay withholding taxes at the fried-chicken take-out places he ran on Tremont Street in Roxbury and in Chelsea, the US Attorney's office reports.

Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. scheduled sentencing for Nov. 7; he faces up to five years in federal prison.

The jury acquitted Din of a charge of procuring citizenship contrary to law. That charge would have let the government revoke his naturalization and kick him out of the country.

Federal prosecutors had alleged that Din acted as one of several frontmen for Hazrat Khan, a Pakistani national living in the Catskills, and Khurshed Iqbal, who recruited fellow Pakistanis and Pakistani-Americans to act as the owners of fried-chicken joints in the Boston area and to help them siphon off money by under-reporting revenues and employee pay on state and federal tax returns. Khan pleaded guilty in 2017 and received a 2 1/2-year prison sentence. He is scheduled for release in January, but faces deportation after his release. Iqbal fled and is on the lam, authorities say.

Din was listed as the owner of Kennedy Fried Chicken, 1041 Tremont St. in Roxbury and Crown Fried Chicken, 895 Broadway in Chelsea.

In 2017, the Boston Licensing Board shut down New York Fried Chicken in Hyde Park after its alleged owner pleaded guilty to his role in the fried-chicken ring.

That man, Riaz Ali Shah, was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

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Can anyone speak to whether or not the chicken was good?

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Which is open again with a new owner, is, well, OK, the sort of stuff if you happen to be walking/driving by and are hit with a sudden urge for fried chicken, you'll stop and get some, but you wouldn't drive there from the other side of town just to get it.

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I may have to try Crown again.

Tried it years ago when this guy owned it and it was naasty.. after several New Yorkers tell me Crown is a staple there.

I thought the place looked like it had new ownership..

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Daryl Whiting was a drug dealer from Queens who move to Orchard park around 1987. He took over the project and part of his money laundering scheme was the creation do Crown Fired Chicken. It first opened up in Roxbury-its still there. He then expanded heavily in his native NYC

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Back when the giant neon waving chicken kept a watchful eye on the neighborhood, shenanigans of this sort were not allowed to happen...

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