The Mammoth Tax Bill Owed by the Obscure Owner of a Salem Computer Repair Shop Defies Belief as Well as Payment

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According to the Oregon Department of Revenue, the biggest tax deadbeat in the state is 32, owns a modest computer repair shop in downtown Salem, and rents a suburban tract home valued at $584,000. This Oregonian of apparently limited wealth somehow owes state government more than $21 million.

Edwin Cordova, 32, has been married for 10 years and, according to his wife’s social media feed, is the dad of two adorable children who go to pumpkin patches and wear matching outfits in family photos. The social posts reveal not a life lived large but one that is solidly middle class…

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