Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner are sentenced for mislabeling seafood as local

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner it were sentenced Monday on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish.

Mary Mahoney’s Old French House, founded in Biloxi in 1962 in a building that dates to 1737, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million. That included a $149,000 criminal fine and $1.35 million in forfeiture for some of the money it received from fraudulent sales of seafood, the Justice Department said.