Worcester's Hangover Pub to reopen Friday
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The Hangover Pub is set to re-open after a prior owner's legal issues forced it to close this spring.
The Hangover Pub, the Green Street bacon-based restaurant shuttered amid an ongoing inquiry into other Worcester restaurants being a launder for drug money, will reopen on Friday.
The restaurant said on Facebook its doors will open at 4 p.m. on July 27, more than three months after it and its sister restaurant Broth were closed in March when its former co-owner, Christopher Slavinskas, pleaded guilty to misleading federal investigators.
Prosecutors allege Slavinskas concealed $330,000 in Kevin Perry’s drug money and used $130,000 on himself.
Perry, the former owner of The Usual and Blackstone Tap, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for laundering the proceeds of his illicit drug sales through those restaurants and other properties.
Slavinskas’ sentencing is scheduled for September.
The Hangover ownership group, sans Slavinskas, was given new licenses from the city’s License Commission in April.
New manager Michael Arrastia, formerly the group’s chef, was named as the new manager. He bought the restaurants’ assets, his attorney said at the commission meeting in April.
Neither Slavinskas nor former business partner Jay Grey will be involved, his attorney told the commission.
Broth, the ramen-inspired restaurant abutting the Hangover Pub and under the same ownership group, reopened June 5.
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