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Owner of the now-shuttered La Crémaillère pleads guilty

The owner and operator of an upscale Northern Westchester restaurant admitted to wire fraud in connection with her multi-year scheme to defraud the restaurant’s lenders, mortgagee, bankruptcy creditors, and customers, authorities announced.

Fairfield County resident Barbara Meyzen, also known as “Bobbie," 57, of Redding,  has owned and operated the La Crémaillère Restaurant in Bedford since 1993.

She pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Thursday, March 5  in White Plains federal court.

The friend who passed this along also told me that “Bobbie” is a kind soul who was overwhelmed trying to run the restaurant her father had overseen before he got sick. Medical expenses, nursing a parent, and inexperience all combined to bring about this sad story. Mind you, whatever her troubles, Ms. Bobbie had no excuse to engage in wire fraud, theft (from customers!), filing false mortgage releases, and lying to the Bankruptcy Court and the F.B.I. She’s in troublem and rightly so.

That same friend also tells me there’s a rumor afoot that a group of local money-types is planning to resurrect the place. The appeal of La Crémaillère always eluded me — more of a blue-haired type of dining experience than I enjoy, but Gideon and Susie liked it, so either they’re older than I’d thought or I was missing something.

Maybe I’ll have a chance to find out.