(Portland, OR) -- The owner of a tree removal business in Happy Valley has been sentenced to federal prison for tax crimes. Joyce Leard owned Mr. Tree Inc. From 2018 through 2020, she withheld employees' money for taxes, but didn't send it to the federal government. She used the money to pay expenses and buy three-and-a-half-million dollars of real estate. She was sentenced to over a year in prison and will pay over two-point-eight-million dollars in restitution.