New York Post

‘Bad Vegan’ tastes freedom

- Georgett Roberts

So-called “Bad Vegan” Sarma Melngailis was freed from Rikers Island Friday after completing a four-month jail sentence on fraud and grand-larceny charges.

The former owner of celeb-fave Gramercy Park “raw vegan” restaurant Pure Food and Wine will now serve five years’ probation and pay $1 million restitutio­n for stiffing investors, her employees and state tax officials.

Melngailis earned her moniker after cops traced a call made by her and her co-defendant husband, Anthony Strangis, while on the lam — to Domino’s. The hubby, whom she’s divorcing, was the mastermind, she said later Friday.

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