A Park City businessman promised a brewery. Instead he paid for strippers and vacations. Now he’s going to prison.

A Park City businessman told roughly 100 investors he would use their money to build a brewery in Park City, and then another in California. Instead, he pocketed the money and used it to pay off personal debts, fund vacations and pay for strippers and swingers’ clubs, according to the Department of Justice. Timothy Nemeckay, 64, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in September 2023 and admitted to “misappropriating” $1.7 million — roughly 60% of the investors’ funds. He will pay for the crime with a year and...