JOSEPH L. DUNNE

WHO’S INVOLVED: Rocky Mountain Properties LLC

HOW MUCH DO THEY OWE? $943,705

THE BACKSTORY: Joe Dunne says Rocky Mountain Properties LLC is a real estate company that improves and leases property. In a phone call, he wouldn’t say much else about it.

But like many of our tardy taxpayers, he is also in the weed business.

Dunne, 41, is the owner of Left Coast Canopy, which operates the Zion Cannabis shops in Southwest Portland and out in Ontario, on the border with Idaho, where pot is still illegal.

Rocky Mountain Properties is weed-adjacent at the very least. It owns the building that Zion occupies in Ontario, according to the Malheur County assessor’s office.

Dunne joined the green rush in January 2015, when he registered Left Coast Canopy with the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. A lawyer by training, Dunne kept practicing through March 2016, earning $7,083 a month, according to divorce court records. Dunne’s ex-wife, Celia Ferrer, petitioned for divorce in December 2015.

If court records are to be believed, the cannabis shops have been very good for Dunne. A judgment on support for the couple’s two children, dated Jan. 19 of this year, shows that Dunne was earning $20,000 a month, almost triple his law firm salary.

The couple are still in court over their divorce. Their next court date is Sept. 26.

Beyond taxes, Dunne has had trouble paying off credit cards,