In 2018, Paul Sr. filed for bankruptcy and moved to Florida, relocating the operations of Orange County Choppers to the Sunshine State as well. In 2021 he opened the OCC Roadhouse and Museum in Clearwater. The facility also features a concert venue, but the operation’s finances have been the source of some controversy.
In 2018 the Miami Herald reported that several foreign investors had been scammed out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme connected to the OCC Roadhouse and associated “shares in paper companies that had no value at all.”
That was not Paul Sr.’s first foray into the restaurant business, nor was it his first brush with restaurant-related legal trouble. That same year, Page Six reported that the Orange County New York Clerk’s office had filed a warrant for more than $22,000 in unpaid state taxes for his Orange County Choppers Cafe in Newburgh. The outlet also reported that his home in Montgomery was in foreclosure at the time.
