Michigan man given three years’ prison for not reporting illicit drug profits

According to the justice department, Matthew D Adams tried to make his narcotics transactions look like normal business expenses. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

A Michigan man was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for not reporting the millions of dollars in income he made from selling illicit drugs, according to the US Department of Justice.

The official charges against Matthew D Adams are money laundering and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service, the US government’s federal tax authority.