Robert Brockman charged in biggest-ever US tax evasion case - Business Insider

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Tech mogul Robert Brockman was charged in $2 billion tax evasion case, the biggest in US history, after a fellow billionaire turned against him to avoid prosecution

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He was charged after fellow billionaire Robert Smith turned against him to avoid prosecution himself, the Justice Department said. At a press conference in San Francisco, US Attorney David Anderson said Brockman was also charged in a securities fraud scheme, after he bought and sold debt securities in his own company, "breaking a promise to investors that he would not buy or sell his own company's debt."He faces seven counts of tax evasion, six counts of failing to file reports disclosing foreign bank accounts, and numerous other counts including wire fraud, money laundering, and evidence tampering.

Anderson said Smith, who helped secure the charges against Brockman and famously announced at last year's Morehouse College commencement that he would pay off the college debt of 2019 graduates, accepted responsibility for his own crimes in the tax evasion scheme. As part of his non-prosecution agreement, Smith admitted to using a nominee trustee and corporate manager to hide his control in four off-shore companies. Some of his untaxed income was used to buy a vacation home in Sonoma, California, and ski properties in the Alps, and to fund charitable causes, Anderson said.

 

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All good. He’ll just pay a fine and won’t go to jail once he settles. morewristslaps

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