San Luis Obispo business owner sentenced to prison

May 20, 2022

By KAREN VELIE

A San Luis Obispo auto repair shop owner, who pleaded guilty in 2019 to a federal charge of failing to pay almost half a million to the Internal Revenue Service, was sentenced to federal prison on Thursday.

John Villa, the owner of Villa Automotive, pleaded guilty to in 2019 to one count of willful failure to pay his taxes. Villa admitted to not paying $489,551 in federal income taxes.

In part because of the pandemic, following Villa’s guilty plea, it took more than two years for his sentencing.

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu sentenced John Silveria Villa on Thursday to five months in prison, two years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $424,501 in restitution.


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John’s arrogant attitude finally got him ….What goes around comes around …To top it off John was the California Smog Inspection Program poster child …poster child of illegal smogs and IRS poster boy …John was also a instructor at Cuesta College for the California Smog program …Another GOV affiliated person gets a soft prison sentence


John Villa is NOT the instructor at Cuesta.