Owner Of Benihana Arrested
12 incredible things about benihana founder rocky aoki.
Owner of benihana arrested. Rocky aoki founder of the benihana japanese restaurant chain was sentenced to three years of probation and fined 500 000 for illegally profiting from a 1993 tip that spectrum information. A federal grand jury indicted rocky h. Benihana founder s widow countersues his children in bitter estate dispute amid claims she nursed fed and tended to her late husband while his kids weren t around. According to family legend aoki s father was walking through the bombed out ruins of post war tokyo when he happened across a single red safflower growing in the rubble.
Benihana taken from the japanese name for safflower was suggested by aoki s father.