Ex-Charlotte Checkers owner pleads guilty to $4.5 million in tax fraud

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – The former primary owner of the Charlotte Checkers hockey team pleaded guilty to tax fraud Monday after failing to report moving millions from his family’s foundation to his personal account.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western North Carolina, Michael Kahn, 66, was convicted on filing a fraudulent income tax return. Though The Michael A. Kahn Family Foundation he founded, between 2020 and 2023, documents show he transferred more than $4.5 million from the nonprofit organization to himself and failed to report those funds on his 2020 tax return…

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