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Shilo Inns Founder Mark Hemstreet Owes More Than $20 Million in Back Taxes
For hotelier Mark Hemstreet, it is arrive to this: A person who was among the greatest spenders in Oregon politics in the 1990s, who lived a lifestyle of personal jets and sprawling ranches—not to mention the metro area’s major American flags and Xmas light shows at his company’s Beaverton headquarters—today stands accused of not shelling out for his cattle’s fodder. On Jan. 23, Cody Tippett, a farmer in Wallowa County, where Hemstreet owns a 9,200-acre ranch, submitted notice with the Oregon Secretary of State’s Business office alleging that Hemstreet hadn’t paid him $101,356 for “labor and hay supplied to feed cattle.” Records display that Hemstreet, founder and proprietor of the…

