Tech mogul in largest US individual tax case may have dementia
Robert Brockman has been indicted on tax evasion and money laundering and is accused of hiding $2bn in income over two decades in the Caribbean
01 December 2020 - 14:35
New York — Robert Brockman, the software executive charged in the largest tax case against a US individual, is facing progressive dementia that will render him unable to help in his defence, according to a legal filing citing his doctors.
Brockman (79) was indicted on tax evasion and money-laundering charges that accused him of using a complex trust structure in the Caribbean to hide $2bn in income over two decades. His lawyers want his case moved from San Francisco, where he was indicted on October 1, to Houston, where he lives and his doctors treat him...
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