
His father Christos Karasarides, who has pleaded not guilty, was released on a $20,000 bond in June 2022.
Attempts to reach Christopher Karasarides were not immediately successful.
And the indictment accuses Christopher Karasarides of signing a false promissory note linked to the investment entity, lying to his tax preparer and knowingly filing false tax returns by saying he owned the company and claiming its income as his own. The document also accuses the father of putting an investment entity in his son's name to hide the father's assets and misrepresenting that a 20% stake in a company was owned by the son when it was owned by the father. A third superseding indictment alleges that from 2016 to 2022, the son helped his father hide cash in the son's bank safety deposit box.
Christos Karasarides, Jr., a current or former Hills and Dales resident who was charged in June 2022 with tax evasion, money laundering, witness tampering and falsification of records, now with his son Christopher Karasarides also faces an additional charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. A message seeking comment was left for Condric. Condric and others listed another person as the owner of Gametastic, did not list all payroll on employment tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service and failed to disclose her earnings from Gametastic on her 20 income tax returns, according to the Justice Department. According to a 2018 complaint filed by federal prosecutors seeking the forfeiture of seized funds, Gametastic was also known as Match Play 777, formerly at 4220 12th St. Stephanie Condric of Canton operated the illegal gambling establishment known as Gametastic. Seven more people who prosecutors allege operated now-closed illegal gambling businesses in Stark County are facing criminal charges.įederal indictments in Cleveland unsealed on Thursday added further charges against at least one defendant already charged in connection with the "skill games" operations shut down in 2018, according to a statement from the U.S.