Business manager who cashed $177M in checks for sham construction companies, fueling $45M tax evasion scam, gets prison time

David A. Katz, the president and general manager of his parents’ check-cashing company, was sentenced to four years in federal prison by a judge on Monday for encouraging what prosecutors described as a tax evasion conspiracy to conceal over $170 million in salaries.

The case was one of the biggest tax evasion cases ever charged in Oregon, according to the prosecution.

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