Scottsdale man sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison for tax evasion

PHOENIX — A Scottsdale man was sentenced to 20 months in prison after he was convicted last September of three counts of tax evasion. Ryan Patterson, 34, will also be required to pay over $430,000 in restitution to the IRS and serve three years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona said in a press release. Patterson, who was a contractor that specialized in remodels, told customers to make out checks to him personally and he would deposit them into his personal account, the release said. Around $1.9 million in income was failed to be…