tax fraud

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A Chelan man pled not guilty to tax fraud in Yakima Wednesday for filing a false tax return in 2011. 46-year-old Jose Echeverria owned and operated a produce sales business and is accused of underreporting his income by more than a half-million dollars between 2009 and 2012...