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An El Dorado Hills-based medical device company executive was sentenced Friday to one year in prison for tax evasion.
As the chief executive of multiple medical device companies, Briant Benson, 59, neglected to pay any personal income tax from 2004 to 2006 despite receiving $2 million in income, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California said in a news release. He plead guilty to tax evasion in August.
Benson was charged by federal prosecutors for using corporate funds to…