Osteria La Baia

Mayor Eric Adams’s Restaurateur Friends Allegedly Owe Millions to Investors, Landlords | Eater NY

"I know Johnny and Robert Petrosyants as the faces of Midtown’s Osteria La Baia; they are now at the center of a New York Times investigation alleging unpaid debts and broken business deals dating to their 2014 guilty pleas for financial crimes. The reporting says businesses connected to them have been accused of misusing funds — including more than $1.2 million in PPP loans — and owing at least $1.7 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest plus about $1.5 million in unpaid rent, allegations that have cast a shadow over their restaurants even as Mayor Eric Adams, who dined at the siblings’ West 52nd Street restaurant 14 times in one month this summer, has repeatedly defended their friendship and said he did not discuss business with them." - Luke Fortney