YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that a tobacco company owned by a Yakama Nation tribal member owes $58 million in back taxes and penalties.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the ruling last week in Yakima sets the amount owed by King Mountain Tobacco and follows a previous decision that treaty rights didn’t exempt the White Swan business from federal income taxes.

The FBI raided the business in February 2011, and the federal government sued for taxes unpaid since 2009.

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Information from: Yakima Herald-Republic, http://www.yakimaherald.com