Hankerson siphoned money from his businesss three locations to finance a voracious marijuana habit and xes parties, witnesses have told investigators. Gladys Knights son, Shanga Hankerson, is at the. The Georgia Department of Revenue raided Gladys Knights Chicken and Waffles June 21. +Witnesses: Gladys Knights son spent on xes, pot as waffle chain sank photo BOB ANDRES Now, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned damaging new details about how Hankerson spent the companys money and treated his employees. All three locations have since reopened under state receivership. But his family rallied around him, the story goes, and Shanga Hankerson grew up to found Atlantas Gladys Knights Chicken and Waffles, famous for feeding Southern comfort food to the stars.įans now wait in hour-long lines at its spot on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta for a taste of the Midnight Train: Four jumbo chicken wings on a golden waffle.īut the outward success of a famous family business unraveled when state revenue agents raided and closed the restaurant chain last month, arrested Hankerson on theft counts, and filed civil racketeering charges against him, alleging more than $1 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties. He cried every night and ate so much that by age 11 he ballooned to 320 pounds, according to Knights autobiography. The story that soul music legend Gladys Knight told about her namesake restaurant began with a little lost boy, devastated when she divorced his father.
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