This just came in from the Department of Revenue:
The owner of Master’s Touch Drywall of Marysville pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony theft of sales tax and workers’ compensation fraud, and agreed to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Ellen Fair gave Mark D. Standley, 53, until May 5 to make nearly $1.5 million in restitution to the Department of Revenue and nearly $650,000 to the Department of Labor &Industries, officials said.
The judge indicated that the length of Standley’s sentence, which could be as much as nine and one-half years in prison, will depend on how much restitution he makes before his sentencing date.
Standley admitted reporting less than a half of 1 percent of the sales tax he collected on drywall work between 2003 and 2008, and failing to pay workers’ compensation premiums for employees he hired to do those jobs.
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