Butch Resnick Net Worth 2026

No reputable outlet has published a net worth for Daniel "Butch" Resnick, the Sullivan County, New York, businessman who runs Resnick Supermarket Equipment Corp. and has bought and restored dozens of buildings in the Catskills. The $8.8 million figure on older pages has no source, and the previous version of this page wrongly described him as the head of a life insurance company married to Lynda Resnick. Federal prosecutors called him "a multi-millionaire" in a 2023 court filing, but no dollar figure has been published.

What is Butch Resnick's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg and Celebrity Net Worth do not cover him. His companies are private, and his real estate is held through entities whose values are not public. His lawyer told a federal court in 2023 that he had grown his father's supermarket equipment firm into a $30 million multistate enterprise, and prosecutors described him as a multimillionaire. Neither statement is a net worth estimate, so this page does not give one.

Where the money comes from

Resnick Supermarket Equipment Corp.

Resnick grew up in Woodridge and Mountain Dale, dropped out of high school and, at 17, went to work as a laborer at his father's supermarket equipment company in Mountain Dale. He bought the business in the 1990s, according to the Times Herald-Record, and expanded into selling parts and small wares to supermarkets and restaurants and investing in supermarkets and banquet halls. By 2023 his lawyer said he had developed seven more companies, including supermarkets and rental properties, employing about 180 people.

Real estate in the Catskills

After the 2008 housing crash he began buying homes at low prices and renovating them as rentals. Notable projects include:

• The Sullivan (2009): he bought the former Lodge at Rock Hill and reopened it as a boutique hotel, and renovated the neighboring Bernie's Holiday Restaurant.
• Apollo Mall (2011–2012): Sullivan County officials chose his plan to redevelop the county-owned mall off Route 17 for a supermarket, discount retail and other uses, and in 2012 he was negotiating the renovation.
• Mountain Dale (from about 2012): he bought 31 buildings in the hamlet, nearly all vacant, and leased them on favorable terms to galleries, shops and restaurants to draw artists and weekenders, The New York Times reported in 2018.
• 2025: he paid to restore a historic 12-by-8-foot Mountain Dale mural, according to the Sullivan County Democrat.

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Local coverage has consistently framed his projects as an effort to revive the county's old resort economy. In 2012 he told the Times Herald-Record that Sullivan County had lost its novelty and needed to get it back, and the paper noted that he tended to finish projects he started in a county used to failed promises. He described himself as someone who prefers jeans and sneakers to suits.

2023 federal money laundering case

Resnick was arrested in December 2021 after an FBI sting and later pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. According to Westfair Business Journal, an undercover agent posed as a stock schemer in 2019 and 2020; Resnick processed checks and returned the funds minus a 20% fee. In November 2023 U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel in White Plains sentenced him to six months in prison and two years of supervised release, fined him $100,000, and noted that he had already forfeited $310,800.

His lawyer described him as a pillar of the community who revived neglected Catskills towns by restoring run-down buildings and leasing them on terms that encouraged new businesses. In a letter to the judge, Resnick called it the biggest mistake of his life and said his businesses had been struggling even before the pandemic cut supermarket construction. Prosecutors disputed that, calling it a crime of greed rather than necessity.

Early life and education

Resnick is a Sullivan County native who grew up in Woodridge and Mountain Dale, in the town of Fallsburg. He left high school without graduating. The New York Times described him as 50 years old in November 2018. The old page's claims that he earned bachelor's and master's degrees with "brilliant academic results" and became a life insurance agent were false and have been removed.

Family

No reliable source names Resnick's spouse. The earlier claim that he is married to Lynda Resnick was wrong: Lynda Resnick is the California businesswoman married to Stewart Resnick of The Wonderful Company, an unrelated family.

Age, height and weight

The New York Times described him as 50 in November 2018; his exact birth date is not published. No reliable source gives his height or weight, and the old figures (60 years old, 5 feet 7 inches, 67 kg) were removed.

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Why there is no reliable figure

His wealth sits in private companies and dozens of small-town buildings whose market values are uncertain, and he told the court his businesses had struggled financially. A fine and forfeiture also reduced his assets. Without disclosed financial statements, any precise net worth would be a guess.