A Scottsdale man, Ryan C. Patterson, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after being found guilty in September by a federal jury of three counts of tax evasion, after a two-week trial.
Patterson’s sentence is to be followed by three years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $436,194 in restitution to the IRS.
Patterson, a contractor specializing in remodels, directed customers to make out checks to him personally and deposited the checks into his personal checking accounts. He failed to report $1.9 million in income and avoided nearly $550,000 in taxes. He also reported a loss of $38,000 in 2016, while at the same time purchasing a primary residence for $445,000 in cash and making other lavish expenditures.